Category: System Integration Business

Should System Integrators Start Looking at Blockchain?
We cannot afford to ignore what is fast becoming a significant presence even in the industrial world for managing transactions along the supply chain. Until a few months ago, blockchain […]

The digitalization journey
If you’re not embarking on the digital transformation journey, you’ll be flying blind without the instrumentation and computing capabilities to keep you focused on your target: producing quality, food-safe product […]

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 […]

CSIA conference – Charlie Bergman “Remember me” Award
Last week at the CSIA conference (Control System Integrators Association) in San Francisco, in font of almost 600 people, I received the 2018 Charlie Bergman “Remember me” Award, named in honor […]

CSIA Certification Is More Relevant Than Ever
My company recently went through the process of re-auditing for CSIA Certification. As you can imagine, as the time for the audit time approached, we concentrated more and more heavily […]

Business Model Revolution Ahead for System Integrators
https://www.automationworld.com/business-model-revolution-ahead-system-integrators

What to expect in the 4th Industrial Revolution
http://blog.mesa.org/2016/12/what-to-expect-in-4th-industrial.html

Integrating Maintenance Management Into MES
The need to reduce all forms of inefficiency and reduce capital investment by maximizing the use of existing assets rather than acquiring new ones is leading many companies to pay […]