Modernizing Manufacturing Operations With AI
Artificial Intelligence, always known as AI, along with its sometime companion robots leads the mainstream media hype cycle. It’s going to put everyone out of jobs, destroy civilization as we know it, and probable destroy the planet. I lived through the Japanese...
Manufacturing Professionals – Think You Don’t Matter to the Bottom Line
My latest email from The Information highlighted the woes and tribulations of Tesla. There are headlines in all the major media outlets—manufacturing problems at Tesla impacting stock price, profitability, and cash flow. How would you like to be the engineers who...
Creative People Seek Routines
You know the stereotype of the creative genius who it spontaneous, keeps odd hours, disappears for a time. Let us blast that stereotype. This weekend I leave for Germany and another trip through the labyrinth of Hannover Messe. Typically at trade fairs, we are exposed...
Creativity and Curiosity
Just give them a pencil and paper and let them write whatever comes to mind with no thought of spelling, grammar, or coherence. We don't want to squelch a child's creativity. I've heard this "advice" until I am sick of it. Study any artist. Especially the great (and...
Company Emerges from Stealth to Power Real-Time Apps at the Edge
The Internet of Things ecosystem is changing computing in almost a seismic shift. But like geology, it builds up over time and then the event happens before you know it. We had centralized, on-site computing revolutionized by PCs. We networked PCs and wound up with...
Podcast Developing the Soul of a Leader
I’ve published another podcast. Despite the many dystopian views of technology, automation, and robots in the future, it is human decision making and leadership that determines what will happen. Gaurav Bhalla's "Awakening a Leader's Soul" teaches a different...
Global Mergers and Acquisitions Signify Industrial Changes
The industrial market—including both manufacturing / production companies and their suppliers—is experiencing continued consolidation through mergers and acquisitions as companies seek to grow and don’t see an organic alternative. This is true, not only in the US, but...
Eye Tracking For Industrial Safety Analysis
From in-store shopper research to evaluating the gaze of an expert pianist, thousands are using wearable eye trackers to accurately measure what people see as they move freely in a range of real-world settings. However, the design of the eye trackers has excluded...
The Power of Mathematical Thinking Plus Skepticism
The power of mathematical thinking—or not thinking. The press release hit email inboxes this week. Researchers at XXX University (name hidden to protect the guilty) announce results of a study purporting to show that fear of the “risk of automation” causes health...
Innovation and The Future of Inventory Management
Innovation springs from small and new companies, so holds Andrew Johnson, CEO of ShelfAware, a software startup in the what could be called the MRO commodity business. His family business, Oringsales.com, is a master distributor of those crucial but often overlooked...
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