Category: System Integration Business

How to Prepare for Digital Transformation Initiatives: Part II
As I wrote in the previous blog, I found a lot of inspirational points in an interesting study published by LNS Research on digital transformation called: Understanding Industrial Transformation Today—Digital Readiness is […]

How to Prepare for Digital Transformation Initiatives: Part I
I recently read an interesting study published from LNS Research on digital transformation called, Understanding Industrial Transformation Today: Digital Readiness is the Foundation for Success. It analyzed the results of a […]

The Challenges of Training for System Integrators
During the last few vendor conferences I participated in, I had a strange feeling. Are we going to be able to keep our resources and companies up to date with […]

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 […]