MESA Best Practices Plus Consultancy Services Equals Plant in a Box
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) launched its first Plant in a Box (PIB) offering during the MESA 2013 North American Conference. MESA’s community focuses on best practices for successful software implementation and TCS states that this new offering leverages such...
More on the future of manufacturing
I took some time away from the Industry Week Best Plants / MESA North America Conference this week to attend a press conference with Dr. Helmuth Ludwig, CEO, Siemens Industry Sector, North America. Ludwig has been consistently on message in my last several...
MESA International Launches “Executive Point-of-View” Program
During some of the Unconference sessions yesterday afternoon at the MESA International North American Conference, many suppliers and manufacturers discussed the problem of educating top executives about the value of operations management applications (MES/MOM). As new...
Jackiw Awarded as MESA International Outstanding Contributor
John Jackiw and MIke Yost, MESA PresidentMike Yost, President of MESA International, gives MESA Oustanding Contributor Award to John Jackiw, vp with Alta Via Consulting. Within MESA, John is Co-Chair of the Metrics Working Group and a certified Global Education...
Cloud, ROI Key Topics at MESA Conference
MESA Unconference Session on ROI Justification One of the first presentations at the MESA North American Conference dealt with the Cloud. We keep discussing and debating this topic in manufacturing. This discussion is a non-starter in the IT realm. The problem has...
Manufacturing Operations Moving to Cloud in Plant-as-a-Service
I'm in Greenville, SC, at the MESA International North American Conference. Arrived just in time for a couple of announcements relating to the future of Manufacturing Operations Management applications. In the first presentation, just concluded, Charles Horth, CEO of...
Podcast Thoughts on Past and Future of Manufacturing
Thinking back over the industrial revolutions, I describe jobs that have been replaced by machines that were socially for the good. I also look at some future ideas about manufacturing describing Industry 4.0 from Germany and Smart Manufacturing from the US.
How Do You Manage Change in Manufacturing?
Tech-Clarity, a new research firm, is conducting a research study on how top performing manufacturers manage change in their manufacturing facilities. Sometimes I wonder about surveys, but many people use this information to develop new products around what customers...
Puzzlement in Industrial Wireless Network Land
I continue to sort through the industrial wireless sensor network landscape. There are signals about what is happening, but nothing definitive, yet. Yokogawa, one of three main supporters of the ISA 100 initiative (the others being Honeywell Process Solutions and GE...
BorgWarner Cooling Systems Showed Increase in Productivity in 6 Months
I am on my way home from Hannover. I've been so busy the past few days, I've had almost no time to write. The news report from the show will be at Automation World. They paid for the trip. However, while I was there, I ran into Franz Gruber who is CEO of MES vendor...
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