Challenge This large, multi-plant timberland and wood products company sought to modernize their operations, including how they visualize and analyze data. Challenges included connecting to older equipment, optimizing track and trace, and boosting quality and throughput, in conjunction with Operational…
Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) Project Context When the management of Yuria-Pharm expressed interest in manufacturing improvements, the team worked with Indusoft-Ukraine. The main motivation was the following issues in the enterprise: “To see all production in the palm of your hand,…
Body Weld Data Capture and Analysis Drives Improvements This large, global automotive OEM worked with GE Digital to help digitize the weld inspection process within the body shop. The inspection process is important to ensure that defects do not make…
Introduction Maintaining accurate CMMS/EAM data is a major challenge for the industry today. Collecting and maintaining quality data requires disciplined work processes that ensure accurate, complete, and pertinent information is captured in the CMMS/EAM system. Proper estimation of metrics like…
Among industrial companies globally, the momentum behind digital transformation is increasing. It’s no longer an abstract concept or an initiative to address sometime in the future. The digital age is here, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is powerful and the…
Advancements in technology have disrupted nearly every industry and created career opportunities that were once implausible. So, it should come as no surprise that nearly half of the 50 Best Jobs in America, according to Glassdoor, are tech-related. What may be…
The digital industrial transformation of industry is taking root in some surprising places–and at an incredible scale. Digital Industrial Transformation The value of enterprise-scale digitalization When I started at General Electric I was impressed by the company’s vision for digital industrial transformation:…
Introduction “The End of Cloud Computing.” “The Edge Will Eat The cloud.” “Edge Computing—The End of Cloud Computing as We Know It.” Such headlines grab attention, but don’t necessarily reflect reality—especially in Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. To be sure,…
The scale of the IIoT can be hard to comprehend. There are hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of connected assets and systems from across the spectrum of industries, producing billions of data points at any given time.…
Regardless of where you sit in your organization, there is nothing more enlightening than meeting with customers – and even better, the end users. It is always an incredible opportunity to learn, and the feedback we get from users ultimately…
