Production Insights for the Factory Manager

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...

Capturing Expert Manufacturing Knowledge in the Workforce

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...

Building the Bridge Between Industry 3.0 and Industry 4.0

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...

Expert Data: Increasing the Resolution

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...

Global Transparency Drives Manufacturing Improvement

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...

What is Expert Data?

Expert Data is the New Frontier As manufacturers push their operations to the next level of efficiency, they can no longer simply collect data by the ton for analysts to sift through. They collect, contextualize, and utilize expert data that has industry expertise...