Lighting the path for outstanding manufacturing data analysis and improved factory management New data tools and artificial intelligence applications are coming online. How will the emerging data revolution help resolve issues on the factory floor? With the tools of...

As the workforce ages, manufacturers are facing a new challenge: how can expert knowledge be effectively preserved when workers leave their positions? The percentage of people in the United States over 55 has doubled in the last 20 years. The population is expected to...

Production data can unlock opportunities for electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers to improve operations. Evolving systems for collection and analysis of machine data is vital to those efforts. Though factories produce many different types of usable data,...

Building the bridge to Industry 4.0. Manufacturing data guides the path towards operational improvement. It can inform decision making throughout the production ecosystem and help manufacturers understand at a granular level why key performance measures (KPIs) were or...

Manufacturing experts make crucial decisions with impacts across multiple factories globally. There can be thousands of employees, suppliers, customers, and machines factored into these decisions. And yet many manufacturers lack the data collection technology to...

Improvement in the manufacturing process is the key to increasing competitive advantage, but finding opportunities to do so is often challenging. For manufacturers facing increased competition and persistent logistical disruption, fully leveraging production data and...