The CIO’s role in business today is far-wider reaching and higher up on the boardroom agenda than ever before. Read More

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Manufacturers and other industrial organizations need to prepare their operations and products for the emerging, connected world of the Internet of Things (IoT). ARC Advisory Group believes that the emerging IoT will offer value across multiple industrial sectors and applications. Cisco expands on this, using the term, "Internet of Everything" (IoE) to describe its vision of bringing people,... Read More

The world got digitized, now businesses must respond to that. How can a business pretend that they can continue their processes as they were – when those processes were made for older decades where manual processes, automation, personalization, and even optimization was not an issue? Read More

People. Process. Data. Things. People. IoT in manufacturing will improve business by connecting people to the right information, over the right device at the right time and span across company boundaries to include suppliers, maintenance partners, and distribution chains. Read More

With its roots dating as far back as 1930, Lean Manufacturing is at the core of the "Lean" philosophies that have emerged over the past 2 decades (Agile Methodologies, Lean Startup). Read More

Connected Devices: What's so cool about a thermostat? Read More

Welcome to the age of the Industrial Internet Read More

SME’s Manufacturing Engineering Media releases its annual trends report declaring advanced manufacturing software (Cloud ERP and PLM), automation, multifunction machines and 3-D printing are creating the new industry of the future, but cautions that developing a highly skilled workforce is critical to sustaining momentum in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Read More

ERP Implementation Challenges Read More