The Shop Floor

What is a Smart Factory? The Smart Factory is a concept for expressing the end...

Citizen development platforms are one of the most exciting developments in manufacturing technology. If you...

How to Pick a Connected Worker Solution There are a wide variety of connected worker...

It can be difficult to explain a SaaS Manufacturing Platform to people. In many ways,...

Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) are among the biggest investments many manufacturers make. Between licenses,...

February 24, 2020 What Manufacturing Can Learn from Open Source

What Manufacturing Can Learn from Open Source After spending a few years in an academic...

February 13, 2020 What is Bottleneck Analysis?

What is a Bottleneck (or Constraint)? In a manufacturing process, “bottleneck” refers to a work...

February 6, 2020 Why Manufacturing Needs the Connected Worker

For the last few years, analysts have predicted the rise of the “connected worker.” Turns...

February 4, 2020 The History and Future of the Assembly Line

The assembly line is one of the great achievements in modern manufacturing. Since the industrial...

January 28, 2020 What is an Application Ecosystem?

First things first. Let’s get a basic definition of Application Ecosystem on the table. What...