More and more evidence of how mobile technology has infiltrated the factory floor comes across my desk/screen everyday. However, nothing is more defining than when I speak to the 25-40 year old Process and Design Engineers. They just expect touch screens, connectivity, real time data, Apps, remote process monitoring and MES integration from their 21st […]
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Why did NBC decide on tape delay for Olympics? We want real time production data…
Like many others, I believe NBC made a huge mistake in deciding to use tape delay for primary viewing of Olympics. In this day of instant, real time production data information, we can’t help but see the results ahead of time, from a variety of sources. Their tape delay makes it all so anticlimactic, not to […]
Great Article by AJ Sweatt, 5 Ways Gamification and Apps can Help Manufacturing
A “young’ colleague of mine recently sent me this article by AJ Sweatt. I had no idea that “gamification” had reached into manufacturing. Corporate giant Seimens has designed the game Plantville for the training of Plant Managers. They even have their own Youtube MultiMedia Room! Quoting from the article; Improving The Image Of Manufacturing – Perhaps the […]
Manufacturing Moneyball, Real Time Production Data for Assembly Processes, 9 Points of Commonality
I finally had a chance to watch the movie Moneyball. Fast forwarding from 2002 to 2012, now we have not just the data, but we have it in real time. Like so many sports teams today,our fluid dispenser manufacturing customers are increasingly collecting, analyzing and making important decisions using real time data. They use data directly generated from our equipment(click on […]
Forward Thinking Into The Design of the SmartDispenser® Platform For Validation and MES Systems
Deep inside Fishman® Corporation is an operative we call “The Mole.” The Mole rarely comes out of the engineering/product development bunker and is directly wired into the latest technology advancement trends in regards to fluid dispensing in manufacturing. Below is an exclusive look, from a 2008 interview, at a few of The Mole’s goals with the […]