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Work Where You Need to Be
Ask anyone who’s spent their career in manufacturing, and they will confirm everything happens on the manufacturing floor. Operators run tools to make parts on the shop floor. Maintenance technicians repair equipment on the shop floor. Production supervisors and foremen monitor workflow and maintain…
Connecting Workers in the Factory – Driving Productivity via Real-Time Access to Data and Collaboration
Come see me at Hannover Messe on April 1st, 2019 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM (Hall 16, Stand D38) and learn about “Connecting Workers in the Factory”. This year’s theme at Hannover revolves around this concept. The networking of people, machines, and data are created through common platforms where they…
The Factory: A Living Organism for Wireless and Mobility
We live in a wireless world. We almost never plug our computers into a network. Our mobile phones and tablets provide constant connectivity. Some of us wear health tracking devices like Apple Watches, Fitbits, and Garmins. These devices count our steps, measure our heart rates, and log the number of…
Manufacturing mobility: Data, voice, video, and location
Manufacturers use wireless to increase margins, reduce cycle times, enable lean, and improve equipment productivity. While pervasive wireless connects sensors, tools, robots, AGVs, and RFID devices, it also enables mobility. Mobility supports far more than just cell phones, tablets, and laptops. Ver…
Cisco Culture in Four Hashtags
Working allows me to provide for my family, and like for most of us, working isn’t a choice. But where I work and how I engage is my choice. Cisco chose me and I chose Cisco. I started my career with college summer internships as a programmer for the biggest and most well-known computer company. I…
Come Together: Cost Savings Unite IT and Operations
Manufacturing to IT: “You just don’t understand the reality of the factory floor.” IT to Manufacturing: “Your legacy systems expose us to security and hackers.” Greater than 99% of the companies I visit waste time, budget, and emotional cycles battling between the information technology (IT) a…
The risk of doing nothing
Source: Edreformnow.org Have you ever told your team, “Upgrading our equipment is too expensive and likely to cause downtime. Let’s just keep it running.” Ultimately, you made a risk decision. While cyber security hasn’t been a critical risk factor until recently, it has quickly emerged as one of to…
Getting a Single Source of Truth for Your Data
Tribal knowledge rules! As more millennials enter our companies and our existing workforce retires, we must share not only best practices but also our best information and processes with them. “Many large, older companies are caught up in a tsunami of baby boomers retiring and are unaware of how mu…
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