Matthew Littlefield

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2018: We’re Past Peak Hype and IIoT’s Just Getting Started

Companies that are well on their way with digital transformation or leveraging the Industrial Internet of Things will be forging new ground in three key areas this year.

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Will Data Historians Die in a Wave of IIoT Disruption?

If data historian vendors want to avoid disruption, expand the user base, and deliver on the promise of IIoT use cases, solutions must bring together all types of data into a single environment that can drive next-generation applications.

Matthew Littlefield, LNS Research

When to Globally Standardize a Quality Process

Standardizing a process across the enterprise carries with it both costs and benefits. Enterprise quality management software (EQMS) is making this transition simpler, much more appealing, and widespread.

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Choosing the Right SPC Vendor for Your Company

A company had recently decided to globally deploy an SPC solution independent from the work it was doing in ERP, EQMS, and MES. This is an architectural approach that many large companies choose which warrants further discussion.

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Industrial Energy Management Improves Operations

IEM can be used to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs, and help operations perform better by aligning people, processes and technology with operational excellence.

This shows the distribution of performance in OEE across a number of different discrete manufacturing industries. Source: LNS Research

Overall Equipment Effectiveness: Benchmark Data by Industry

Our goal is to benchmark over 1,000 companies by the end of the year so manufacturers will be able to compare their performance to their peers’ using metrics such as OEE, On Time and Complete Shipments, Successful New Product Introductions, and Cost of Quality. For now, there is preliminary data on OEE performance across a number of discrete manufacturing industries.

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Compliance with Food Safety Regulations

Our company has conducted research in the food safety and traceability space for the past five years. Last year’s report started by citing President Obama’s creation of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) working group focused on the topic, and a prediction that “change is on the way.” This year, we will start by stating that change has arrived, and the Food Safety Modernization Act has passed.

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Business Process Management Produces Manufacturing Benefits

Given the implications of many recent events surrounding new product introductions, product quality, demand volatility and sustainability, manufacturers are facing a quickly evolving marketplace.

Manufacturing Strategy: Lean Take 2

Lean Manufacturing is not new, so an interesting question to ask is the following: Why then, in a recent survey of more than 150 manufacturing executives, is increasing focus on Lean one of the top two strategies being deployed across manufacturing today?

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The Manufacturing Operations Management Platform

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) has outlived its original definition.

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Food and Beverage Manufacturers Trail in Technology Adoption

The findings of the Aberdeen Group’s December 2008 research, “Compliance and Traceability in Real Time: Accelerating the Speed of Business,” has revealed that Food and Beverage (F&B) manufacturers are performing below best-in-class and industry-average companies in critical metrics, with 91 percent on-time and complete shipments and 95 percent products in compliance, as compared to 98 percent and 99 percent, respectively, for best-in-class companies.

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Compliance, Traceability and New Product Introductions

New product introductions are an integral part of any manufacturer’s business; successes can change the industry landscape and failures can empty the coffers of even the largest companies.