It’s time for unity on the factory shopfloor – and leading technology services providers, industrial automation businesses and global manufacturers have come together to make it happen.
Most manufacturing plants these days work just fine. Each stage of the production process performs its appointed task, and passes its work on to the next. Which is as it should be, at least as far as it goes. The trouble, though, is that much of data issued by these pieces of equipment is siloed in their individual ecosystems. It means that, while traditional operational excellence practices will still deliver, there is no way to make the most of process-wide insights in real time.