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    Smart Manufacturing
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    Best Practice for a Successful MES Strategy Part 4: Achieving Results

    In the first three parts of this series, we covered the following key parts of developing a successful MES ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    July 16, 2024
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Best Practices for a Successful MES Strategy Part 3: Identifying a Trusted Digital Transformation Partner

    Multiple surveys have shown that roughly 80 percent of MES-type projects fail to move forward past the ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    June 6, 2024
    Best Practices for a Successful MES Strategy Part 2: Proper Planning for Implementation
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Best Practices for a Successful MES Strategy Part 2: Proper Planning for Implementation

    You’ve taken the time to review and understand the business challenges you’re facing, and how, at a high ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    May 22, 2024
    Best Practices for a Successful MES Strategy Part 1: Understanding Your Business Drivers
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Best Practices for a Successful MES Strategy Part 1: Understanding Your Business Drivers

    You need to push production to get more out of your existing assets. To do this, you’ve tried to optimize ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    May 1, 2024
    Improving Efficiency Through Algorithmic Production Scheduling
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Improving Efficiency Through Algorithmic Production Scheduling

    Beginning in 2017, food and beverage manufacturer Farmer Brothers began its shift to Industry 4.0 by ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    October 31, 2023
    Four Examples of Evolved Industrial Control Room
    Smart Manufacturing
    2 Min Read

    Four Examples of Evolved Industrial Control Room

    Programmable control systems such as PLC and DCS systems have been around for 50+ years with improvements ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    May 8, 2023
    Today's Connected Plant: A Unified Machine for Making Food
    Smart Manufacturing
    1 Min Read

    Today's Connected Plant: A Unified Machine for Making Food

    System integrators (SIs) often work with AEs and have expertise not only with industrial automation systems ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    October 11, 2022
    Even in the Midst of Supply Chain Disruption - What Can You Do NOW to Improve Performance?
    Smart Manufacturing
    4 Min Read

    Even in the Midst of Supply Chain Disruption - What Can You Do NOW to Improve Performance?

    Are you feeling pressure to improve performance and production, but struggle knowing where to start? How can ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    April 29, 2022
    AI and ML: What is the Benefit?
    Smart Manufacturing
    1 Min Read

    AI and ML: What is the Benefit?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will impact almost all areas of manufacturing and ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    January 4, 2022
    Smart Manufacturing
    1 Min Read

    Steps to Smarter Solutions

    Manufacturers look to Smart Manufacturing to solve business problems and show an ROI to fuel future phases. ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    October 14, 2021
    RFID in Manufacturing Making a Comeback!
    Smart Manufacturing
    1 Min Read

    RFID in Manufacturing Making a Comeback!

    We have recently seen a significant uptick in manufacturers interested in using RFID to:
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    August 31, 2021
    Smart Manufacturing Demystified
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Smart Manufacturing Demystified

    What is Smart Manufacturing about anyway? Performance Management
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    July 2, 2021
    Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Integrated with Data Management Systems
    Smart Manufacturing
    2 Min Read

    Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Integrated with Data Management Systems

    Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a comprehensive, non-hierarchical approach to equipment maintenance ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    May 3, 2018
    RFID Implementation Delivers Product Tracking & Inventory Control
    Smart Manufacturing
    1 Min Read

    RFID Implementation Delivers Product Tracking & Inventory Control

    The Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) market started off slow in the early 1990s, but is now expected to ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    January 31, 2018
    Smart Manufacturing Workforce - Do You Already Have the Talent You Will Need?
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Smart Manufacturing Workforce - Do You Already Have the Talent You Will Need?

    Smart Manufacturing Defined: The use of real-time data and technology when, where and in the forms that are ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    May 23, 2017
    Mitigating Automation Technology Risks
    Smart Manufacturing
    3 Min Read

    Mitigating Automation Technology Risks

    Operating legacy technology beyond obsolescence is a common choice for manufacturers, but the choice should ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    May 27, 2015
    Manufacturing Intelligence: Success or Failure?
    Smart Manufacturing
    9 Min Read

    Manufacturing Intelligence: Success or Failure?

    In the “new normal” of manufacturing, a system for tracking accurate quality metrics and key performance ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    September 15, 2014
    The Internet of Things and Everything — IoT/IoE
    Smart Manufacturing
    13 Min Read

    The Internet of Things and Everything — IoT/IoE

    If you think technology has changed rapidly in the last 30 years, just wait. According to the Cisco Visual ...
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    Richard Phillips, PE, PMP
    March 26, 2014

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