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Microsoft Hololens, a new step toward wearable devices?
The battle of wearable devices and augmented reality continues. Yesterday Microsoft unveiled it’s “holographic” glassed: Hololens. Beside the name that brings quickly the mind to many science fiction movies, Hololens […]
Agile Project Management Questions Answered, Part 1
Last month I wrote about how an unconventional, agile project management approach can be crucial to the success of a manufacturing execution system (MES) or manufacturing operations management (MOM) project. I did […]
Maintenance mode: ON
Spending a few days at home I had the opportunity to start the upgrade of my Blog site. I deployed a new theme that should allow me to add new […]
Happy 2015
I honestly cannot say that 2014 was a good year, especially after he decided almost at the end to steal one of the deepest love of each of us: my mother. […]
Agile Project Management for MES Deployments
Although recent years have seen a gradual proliferation of configurable products to create manufacturing execution systems (MES) or manufacturing operations management (MOM), a project based on these products always requires […]
Maintenance Management: MES or ERP?
Anyone can see that the maintenance of production lines, machinery and devices in a manufacturing plant is important. A little less obvious, perhaps, is how maintenance can significantly minimize quality […]
Industrial Wearable Devices Are Coming
In the last few months we have witnessed an acceleration in the availability of wearable devices. From Google Glass and the various armbands that can monitor physical behavior, to watches […]
MES-MOM: Time for a Change?
About 15 years ago, when I started working on production management system implementations, I was forced to use some roundabout expression to avoid saying “MES.” The client did not have […]
Future
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 […]
3 Reasons to Use Mobile Technology in Manufacturing
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 […]