HomeJohn DyckSoftwareCross-Industry Exposure Can Accelerate LearningDo you have opportunities to engage in open discussions with your peers in other industries, other disciplines, or in completely different types of companies? If not, you don’t know what you don’t know.ControlIT View: Operations Intelligence--A New Competitive EdgeThe Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) is known as the source of knowledge and best practices for MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), but the rapidly growing demand for better information flow and decision support for manufacturing has propelled another aspect of manufacturing information technology (IT)—Operations Intelligence—into the limelight.ControlThe Business Case for Operations Management SystemsUnplanned downtime, the inability to maintain planned production rates, safety and environmental incidents—all of these business problems can be traced directly to recurring equipment failures and to recurring operations mismatches in production rates and capacities, which cause unplanned shutdowns and early equipment failures.ControlA New Decade--IT Sets Sights on ManufacturingIn what seems an inevitable response to demands for greater regulatory compliance and security, manufacturers are increasingly turning to their chief information officers (CIOs) to establish more effective reporting and governance for their plants.
