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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) is one of the key mantras in smart manufacturing. This convergence has many different faces with several organizational and technical […]

The battle of wearable devices and augmented reality continues. Yesterday Microsoft unveiled it’s “holographic” glassed: Hololens. Beside the name that brings quickly the mind to many science fiction movies, Hololens […]

In the last few months we have witnessed an acceleration in the availability of wearable devices. From Google Glass and the various armbands that can monitor physical behavior, to watches […]

About 15 years ago, when I started working on production management system implementations, I was forced to use some roundabout expression to avoid saying “MES.” The client did not have […]

About 10 years ago, when we first offered industrial tablets to our clients for production management or maintenance activities, the response we got was almost always indifferent, if not clearly adverse. We were only […]