Category: Markets

Why IIoT Demand Continues to Grow
When I look back on the last 12 months, I see a substantial number of changes in the requests for solutions we received from our clients. The pandemic deeply affected […]

S.M.A.R.T. Communication Manufacturing
In my last few articles, I wrote mostly of the impact COVID-19 is having and will have on collaboration in manufacturing companies. Like all of you, COVID-19 impacted my life, […]

Milano Finanza – Veneto Awards 2019 – Digital Technology Award

Supply Chain Transformation
Once we accept that the real competition happens at the supply chain level, it becomes obvious that having a perfectly organized, tuned and efficient supply chain is mandatory. At the […]

The Revenge of Custom Applications
In the past year, I’ve seen a significant increase of requests for proposal (RFPs) of manufacturing execution system (MES) applications to be developed on non-traditional MES platforms. They are typically […]

Is Cloud for Manufacturing Really Coming?
It was probably less than a year ago when I first heard IT and operations debating about the possibility of adopting a cloud-based manufacturing execution system (MES). At the time, […]

Digitalization Is Disrupting the Supply Chain
My last three articles analyzed the relationship between digitalization and the manufacturing execution system (MES), considering MES as a key component of any digitalization initiative. At the time, I touched […]

Is Digitalization Different From MES? (Part 3)
In Italy we say, “There’s no two without three!” So here is the third and last part of my thoughts on the relationship between a manufacturing execution system (MES) and […]

Is Digitalization Different From MES? (Part 2)
When a couple of months ago I wrote of MES and digitalization, I was not expecting to receive so much feedback. It was a real surprise to read comments and […]

Industrial Software—What It Should Look Like
What if iPhone X were sent folded in ugly ruined boxes? Would customer satisfaction and loyalty be the same? Whoever says, “You can’t judge a book by its cover” is […]