On September 9th and 10th of 2019, Operational Sustainability, LLC® held its second Operational Excellence (OE) Conference at the Norris Conference Center at City Centre here in Houston, Texas. Approximately 100 people attended, including partners and industry SMEs. Founder and CEO David Drerup opened the conference keynote with a renewed commitment to serving customers with their OESuite™ of intelligent, real-time decision support and risk management applications that integrate heretofore silos of multiple products. The company is celebrating its 10th year in business. OESuite focuses on the oil & gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, utilities, mining, water / wastewater, and food & beverage markets. They have more than 30 clients, some with 50+ sites.
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Operational Excellence,
Solution Vendor / Software Vendor,
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Like manufacturing, asset performance management (APM) has evolved to leverage the digital technology associated with Cloud, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), mobility, Big Data, and the associated analytics. This overall industrial shift has been referred to as both Industry 4.0 (or Industrie 4.0) and Smart Manufacturing. Accordingly, LNS set forth a vision of how APM has evolved in support of these highly digital, capable manufacturing assets which we call APM 4.0.
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Operational Excellence,
Smart Connected Assets,
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM),
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing,
Asset Performance Management (APM)
On Tuesday, March 20, LNS Research hosted the webcast, “Industry Standards as Building Blocks to Quality Maturity and Operational Excellence.” The presentation examined how to use industry standards to capture the attention and cooperation of senior corporate executives, the capabilities required to achieve competitive advantage through quality, and the results companies should expect.
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Operational Excellence,
Metrics,
Compliance,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing,
Quality 4.0
Safety culture has been a long-standing topic in environment, health, and safety (EHS) and operational risk management (ORM) for industrial organizations. It’s receiving more attention in recent years with increased recognition of the essential role of human capital management and organizational dynamics in running a successful business.
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Operational Excellence,
Risk Management,
Continuous Improvement,
Culture,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Last year was big for the environment, health, and safety (EHS) business function, regarding the technology available to manage it, and industry developments that impacted EHS. For the most part, the trends we projected in our 2017 trend and impacts to watch blog were realized, or at least advanced substantially.
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Operational Excellence,
Big Data,
Industrial Automation,
Culture,
ISO Standards,
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT),
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing,
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML),
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
On Thursday, February 22, LNS Research hosted the webcast, “Harness Organizational Culture for EHS Performance and Operational Excellence.” The presentation examined how to assess culture in relation to safety and operational performance, and strategies to foster culture and operationalize management systems to support organizational objectives.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Culture,
Compliance,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
The #MondayMusings Industrial Transformation blog series provides insight and analysis for executives from the previous week’s briefings, events, and publications @LNSResearch.
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This past week Oracle held the company’s annual Modern Supply Chain Experience conference in San Jose, CA, representing its largest iteration to date with over 3,000 attendees. For this year’s event, Cloud is still core to the message, but it's not stressed to the same degree as previous years. My suspicion and it reflects in our research is that the move to the Cloud, as with mobile, is now just assumed to be part of the architecture, rather than a challenge to overcome.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Risk Management,
IT/OT,
#MondayMusings
When it comes to safety, one thing most people agree on is that it starts at the top. If safety is not a top priority for senior management, including the C-level, an organization is sure to fall short of achieving their stated objectives. Even in companies that tout a strong commitment to safety, there is often a disconnect between what the leaders say and their actions.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Culture,
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
The #MondayMusings Industrial Transformation blog series provides insight and analysis for executives from the previous week’s briefings, events, and publications @LNSResearch.
Click here to speak with Matt Littlefield
LNS Research is deep in the throes of completing the draft of our 2018 Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform solution selection guide. As part of that guide development, we revisit and update our 2014 IIoT platform model.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Risk Management,
IT/OT,
#MondayMusings
