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Yearly Archives: 2021
Allocation of Insufficient Supply
With labor, plastics, chips, cans and many other global shortages, demand is far greater than supply for many manufacturers. The question is: How best do …
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Strategic Supply Chain Visibility
It’s one thing to focus on eliminating problems between shipment and delivery, the typical point of supply chain visibility. It’s quite another to discover there …
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Supply Chain Visibility
It’s not shipping on time that matters; it is receiving on time. That is true for you, and for your customers. That means manufacturers can …
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IIoT Programming is Easy
Industrial Internet of Things is the digitization of important variables, with that data converted into information that creates faster and better decision making. Business leaders …
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Industrial Internet of Things — Data Considerations
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is by definition about the digitization of factors important to your business operations that is not currently captured as …
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How to Define a Mission that Matters
Saying your mission is to be the best at whatever it is that you do, using whatever technology you use, is meaningless to the outside …
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Why Mission Matters to Your Business
Mission, vision, and core value statements were once considered serious. And then fluff, because companies had them, but didn’t live them. Thank goodness we’re never …
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Learning from Observation
CEOs, COOs, and consultants like myself do NOT know everything. We shouldn’t pretend to, nor expect ourselves to. We do need to constantly focus on …
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Move Forward Now, or Delay?
Inconvenience and risk are present in our manufacturing businesses every day. Some should not prevent us from moving forward now; others represent to much potential …
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