As the world of process manufacturing continues its quest to both drive increased production to meet customer needs and provide sustainable operations to meet global expectations, more and more companies are discovering that data is central to accomplishing their...
As the global marketplace expands, operating at peak efficiency has become increasingly important. If your competition is manufacturing their products while your personnel are navigating an unanticipated outage, you’re not only losing money, but possibly providing...
We talk so much about the value of data today that it becomes easy to forget that too much data—or data that is not useful— can be just as much of a problem as not having any at all. This idea is at the heart of Drew Mackley’s recent contribution to an article in Food...
So, how’s digital transformation going? All digitally transformed? All jokes aside, many organizations are finding that the results of their digital transformation efforts have created improvements across their organizations but have not delivered the true paradigm...
The push for more sustainable operations around the globe has touched nearly every industry, and the life sciences are no exception. Manufacturing teams now need to carefully manage waste, energy use, water use, and emissions on top of all their existing...
At many plants around the globe, reliability strategies haven’t changed much in the last few decades. Technicians grab a documentation device—sometimes an Android or iOS device, sometimes a hardened laptop, other times, a fit-for-purpose handheld communicator—and head...
Data. You have it. You might even want more of it. And, if statistics are any guide, chances are you simultaneously see areas where you have too much of it. In recent years, as computing technology has expanded and sensing equipment has rapidly decreased in price and...
When considering ways to improve and secure operational excellence, organizations frequently overlook one key area: reliability and maintenance. In the struggle to define new ways to improve operations, it is easy to forget that even the most perfectly refined process...
Plants need a strong pipeline of data to help them ensure optimal performance. We spend a lot of time talking about how to collate, transmit, and store that data so it is easily accessible whenever and wherever people need it. However, all that strategizing is of...
Plant turnarounds have never been known to be staff’s favorite projects, so few people were sad to see them slow or even stop altogether during the COVID pandemic. But now that the worst of the global pandemic appears to be in the rearview mirror, organizations have...
Life sciences organizations are not short on data. Most plants already have many sensors in place to drive operational data to the control system so operators always know exactly what is happening at any given moment of production. Operations teams know that good data...
Today’s shortage of experienced plant personnel comes as no surprise to anyone. But the optimal solution to that problem might be a bit less obvious than the problem itself. Those retiring workers aren’t coming back any time soon, but plants still need to find ways to...
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