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As businesses look for a competitive advantage that can help fuel growth, they will continue to pursue operational excellence and better business execution best practices. Here, we bring you the latest insights on these topics along with real-world examples of how businesses like yours use software like ours to more quickly realize their strategic vision.
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You’re Probably Doing Industry 4.0 All Wrong!
October 5, 2021 |
With the growing prevalence of connected machines on shop floors, there’s no shortage of operations technology (OT) data available to manufacturing leaders. But without a practical approach for using that data to drive meaningful quality, efficiency, and productivity gains, it’s just numbers, and you miss the chance to leverage insights that will propel you ahead…
Read postHow to Get Ahead of Supply Chain Instability with Technology
Brian Cromer | May 11, 2021 |
Supply chain disruptions are nothing new. But lately, it seems like they are becoming more of a norm than exception. The recent images of the enormous Ever Given container ship wedged in the Suez Canal are a case in point. As manufacturers have scrambled to deal with complications related to trade wars and the COVID-19…
Read postThe 3 Vs: The Value of a Supply Chain Control Tower
| July 23, 2020 |
Whether or not you’ve heard the term “supply chain control tower,” it’s been around for a while. And given all of the market volatility lately, it’s well worth understanding and considering. What is it? A supply chain control tower is essentially a dashboard that compiles and displays timely order and shipment-related updates and data intelligence…
Read postAnalytics: The Brains Behind Manufacturing Success Going Forward
, Brian Cromer | July 2, 2020 |
Given today’s extraordinary economic and market situations, nearly every manufacturer is wisely asking “what’s next?” At Dploy Solutions, we liken the current challenge to getting out of manufacturing Oz. We’ve all suddenly landed in a very strange place where the landscape and assumptions are different, and we have to move forward accordingly. That begs the…
Read postWhy Analytics are Essential to Getting out of Manufacturing “Oz”
| May 20, 2020 |
If there has ever been a “we’re not in Kansas anymore” moment in modern manufacturing, it’s now. Things may still look normal in the world outside, for the most part. But what’s currently happening in the business environment can seem downright surreal, even if there haven’t been any reports of flying monkeys. Just like Dorothy…
Read postAccelerating Operational Improvements Using Embedded KPI Analytics: What You Need to Know
| March 11, 2019 |
Beyond cars, dashboards are everywhere these days. Your smartphone alone can provide insights into all kinds of life-related things, including sleep quality, exercise, and even usage of your smartphone itself. And for many things you use or deal with, the metrics you need to understand and respond to are pretty straightforward, so it makes sense…
Read post3 Essentials For Getting the Most Value From Analytics Tools in Manufacturing
| March 4, 2019 |
With all of the hype in the marketplace about analytics, many manufacturers understandably have the impression that all you have to do to get actionable business insights from an analytics tool is “plug in” the software and let it work its magic. The reality, however, is more nuanced. Analytics are a wide set of capabilities…
Read post3 Signs That Your Manufacturing Operations Could Benefit From Analytics Tools
| February 25, 2019 |
Every decision maker who works in manufacturing is no stranger to data. From day-to-day, data in one form or another informs most of the decisions you make and actions you take. And if your organization has done well without analytics tools, you may question the value of yet another IT capability. The problem is that…
Read postEmbedded Analytics: Moving Past the Data Scientist to the Business User
| February 14, 2019 |
Most people dread the weekly grocery shopping chore. But not me. Big grocery chains have leveraged new advances in technology to make this time-consuming, sometimes grueling task, a cake walk. And I, for one, really appreciate it. With a simple click in my grocery app, I now have the ability to order groceries and either…
Read postCloud-Based Data Analytics Solutions: Power Your People & Operations
| August 24, 2018 |
No matter what systems and processes your business operations uses to gather data and make decisions, it’s worth regularly asking if there is a better approach. If your operations still relies heavily on spreadsheets and has yet to undertake a serious data integration initiative, the answer is definitively “yes.” A recent Aberdeen Group survey called…
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