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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
RFID in Manufacturing Making a Comeback!
Smart Manufacturing
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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