Reality Bites – Knowledge Management & Continuous Lifecycle Management of Highly Customized Systems
The Challenge
The efficient use of knowledge is increasingly becoming a competitive advantage. Know-how in a company is often widely scattered and very often does...
Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute
Smart Manufacturing and other data-oriented advanced manufacturing initiatives – IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), Industry 4.0, Manufacturing 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing – have generally...
The Key to Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing? Collaboration
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted areas of need in American manufacturing. When the pandemic hit, manufacturing processes that relied on manual tasks by humans...
AI for Industry 4.0 – Cloud vs Edge
Industry 4.0 is about data driven manufacturing automation and is usually associated with the Internet of things and cloud computing in order to create...
Taking advantage of applied AI in Manufacturing
Manufacturing has been continuously evolving since the first Industrial Revolution. Early manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines....
Realizing the potential of Production 3D Printing with Simulation
3D Printing is on the brink of not only changing the way we make products – it is poised to change the shape and...
How/What Technologies are helping Manufacturing During and Post COVID-19
Since January 2020, when WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic as a world health emergency, all countries faced many challenges in different levels. Economically, the...
Making Sense of Smart Manufacturing
Why and how to leverage digital technologies
2018 is looking like a tipping point in the adoption of smart manufacturing (aka, Industrial Internet of Things,...
Improve Your Standard Operating Procedures With Eye Tracking
Standardized Work documents have a lot in common with children; many of us in manufacturing have got them, they can be tricky to manage,...
Manufacturing in the Time of COVID-19
Lessons learned from the medical device manufacturing industry
As I write this, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on the world. Terminology...
