Quality costs money. Poor quality costs more. Most manufacturers understand this intuitively, but few can quantify it because the full cost of quality is often hidden inside disconnected systems, m...
Changes are inevitable in high-complexity manufacturing. What varies is the cost of handling them.
The later a change happens, the more expensive it becomes - and most systems make it diffic...
High-complexity manufacturing teams often put development and production in different systems of record, even though both should live in the same one. The split can feel manageable at first - espec...
Most manufacturers need an enterprise resource planning platform (ERP) in addition to a modern manufacturing execution system (MES). But you don’t have to implement and push both platforms live at ...
Many agile manufacturing enterprise systems (MES) come with a major drawback: governance that is too loose. The problems aren’t always apparent at first....
Discrete manufacturing teams can waste considerable time figuring out what to do next instead of just doing it.
Replace confusion with clarity, and enhance efficiency, with an MES-embedde...
“I’m surprised you care.” Those words were spoken to me years ago by my friend and SpaceX coworker Bryson Gentile. I had hundreds of conversations while working there, which will forever remai...
I saw this scenario for decades…
Companies spending millions on a system upgrade. Implementations that took way too long - months, even years. Meanwhile, productivity was at a virtual sta...
We have all been there. Senior leadership announces that the company is embarking on a bold digital transformation journey. It gets mentioned to investors, rolled out in all-hands meetings, and som...
In high-complexity manufacturing - from space and aerospace to clean energy - we share an open secret: quality escapes occur too frequently. They burn schedule and budget. In the worst cases, these...
You chose the window seat. One moment, you’re enjoying the view. The next your shirt is ripped off and sucked into the sky and you're gripping your seat for dear life while staring in shock through...
There’s no way of getting around it: manufacturing today is global. Multiple facilities spread across regions. Partners halfway around the world. Language barriers, compliance hurdles, and the cons...