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...

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...

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...

Accelerating the Industry 4.0 journey The train is leaving the station, and manufacturers need to get on board before it is too late. The window of time for manufacturers to implement i4.0 solutions is shrinking. Automation has increased 85% in the last five years....

Going live in two weeks with no downtime: Arch implementation surprises new customers. When new customers see the timeline for their new Arch implementation, their expressions suggest that they don’t believe us.  Yes, we plan to deploy and go live in two weeks. No, we...

I think at the end of the day one of the opportunities in Industry 4.0 is trying to find off-the-shelf solutions for analytics that might be complex internally but are simple and explainable to people on a factory floor. — Tim Burke, APEX 2023 panel “Planning your...