Category: Trends

Is the pandemic changing the client supplier relationship?
It was clear from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that this global crisis, even if not new in the modern world, was totally different from any previous one. The […]

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, […]

How COVID-19 Generated a New Need of Collaboration Tools in Manufacturing
There’s no doubt COVID-19 has already changed many habits in our personal and business life. We are learning to deal with the virus and the many constraints it’s bringing to […]

Operations & Supply Chains After COVID-19
There’s a lot of discussion around what the world is going to look like after COVID-19. There’s even discussion around if there will be an after COVID-19 world or if […]

Thoughts on System Integrators Before and After COVID-19
I know! This is the most predictable topic to write about during these times. Whatever site you visit, magazine or newspaper you read, it’s all about COVID-19—the virus that suddenly […]

How Can a System Integrator Support Environmental Sustainability?
I will not write about the effects of the climate change, because we all know how critical the situation is. The attention is on how everyone should contribute on reducing […]

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 […]

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, […]