Category: System Integration Business
How to Successfully React to an Economic Crisis
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 […]
CSIA Conference 2014
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 […]
MES and Competitiveness
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 […]
X-Change 2014 – Wild Coast Sun – South Africa
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 […]
MES business benefits
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 […]
How Real Time Information Can Save Money and Boost Efficiency
Most companies today are making significant investments around the collection and analysis of information obtained from operations—particularly production lines. This information is used to investigate aspects of quality, efficiency, productivity, […]
Energy Use: The Critical Ingredient in Manufacturing Success
In Italy, we make a lot of pasta. A typical pasta recipe might require 500 kilograms of flour, 300 liters of water, 5 kilograms of salt and electricity as required. […]
5 Reasons Why ERP Needs MES
For more than 10 years I have been following a number of companies in the implementation of manufacturing execution systems (MES). My involvement has ranged from analyzing the requirements and […]
Mobility, Big Data and The Cloud: Opportunities or Commodities?
There is no conference, magazine or airport terminal where people are not talking about mobility, Big Data and cloud computing. Those three terms, according to who is talking, identify technological […]
Big Data, Big Buzz
Big Data, BIG DATA, bIg daTa, big data, big datA. How much noise around these buzzy words! There’s no conference, meeting, presentation without a special mention to Big Data, Cloud […]