You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have […]

About 10 years ago, when we first offered industrial tablets to our clients for production management or maintenance activities, the response we got was almost always indifferent, if not clearly adverse. We were only […]

Often, when I am discussing project with clients, I tell them that this is similar to a man who comes home and discovers that he lost all the money in […]

Comments typically overheard in discussions involving multiple technology groups in a manufacturing facility: “If you ask the IT department, the project will never start …” “We cannot ask the production […]

MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) and LNS Research recently published the results of a poll titled “Manufacturing Metrics That Really Matter.” This initiative behind the survey is to understand the business use and […]

Six years ago, in the midst of the most severe global economic downturn since the Great Depression, my systems integration business (Autoware) was suffering significantly. A series of concurrent factors—some […]

The CSIA Conference 2014 is over. Three days of focus on how to build a better System Integration business run away fast as I coudn’t expect. It was a record […]

Generational changes in business affect not only the top management. All corporate levels are impacted, undermining the integrity of production processes, the ability to optimize them and sometimes even compromising […]

On April 5th, 2014 started the X-Change 2014 Conference the South African Invensys conference. Beside being always one of the best business conferences you can attend, this edition is even the […]

Gartner and Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) recently published the results of a survey they developed to assess if, and to what extent, MES applications are delivering ROI and creating […]