Industry 4.0 is the topic of conversation in manufacturing today. But most of us have not yet figured out all we can and should do …
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To Automate, Or Not To Automate
Category Archives: Operational-Excellence
Want to Increase Alignment Within Your Organization?
Do your operations folk trust the sales team to provide a high quality forecast, one that can and should be used for operational planning? Does …
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Heijunka is For Thinking Too
This week between Christmas and New Year is commonly wasted by US manufacturers. I get the holiday spirit, and that people need to relax and …
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Your Energy Crisis
Energy around the world is now expensive and in many places unavailable. The transition from carbon-based to renewables is coming, and brings with it complexities …
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Cheap Labor is NOT the Goal!
It wasn’t difficult to see this coming. This podcast from 2013 explained how chasing cheap labor was very short sighted and doomed to fail. The …
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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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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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Lean is NOT Toyota’s system
Last week’s podcast exposed my frustration with executives and journalists who claim to understand lean but obviously, to me and my opinionated thinking, do not. Today …
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