Capturing Expert Manufacturing Knowledge in the Workforce

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

Why Machine Data is Special, and What You Can Do With It

Production data is the foundation of manufacturing data analysis and 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...

Expert Data: Increasing the Resolution

Manufacturing experts make crucial decisions with impacts across multiple factories globally, often without a 360 degree view of their enterprise data. There can be thousands of employees, suppliers, customers, and machines factored into these decisions. And yet many...

AI Needs Good Data

Preparing Manufacturing Data for AI Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) have incredible potential for putting huge amounts of data to work for smarter decision-making, forecasting, and production improvements. We are getting better and better at...