Let’s take a few moments to think about how much new technology has made its way into our automobiles and automobile-related transportation over the last few years. It’s been an exhilarating ride already, and our research is showing that the speed and impacts of new technology and business models are only going to increase, and touch everyone involved in the industry.
Read MoreCategories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
In this weekly Roundup, LNS Research explores recent announcements and events, such as IIC's Industrial Internet Security Framework; the new global quality standard for auto industry; a global mining company digitizes global operations; industry-specific PLM approach; and Oracle's acquisition of a supply chain management vendor.
Read MoreCategories: Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
Let’s take a few moments to think about how much new technology has made its way into our automobiles and automobile-related transportation over the last few years. It’s been an exhilarating ride already, and our research is showing that the speed and impacts of new business models and technology is only going to increase, and touch everyone involved in the industry.
Read MoreCategories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
In this weekly Roundup, LNS Research explores recent announcements and events, such as Enviance Acquires Actio Corporation; commerical users can now fly drones for profit purposes without a pilot's license; and Intel continues with its IoT vision.
Read MoreCategories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Cloud, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Supplier Quality Management (SQM) has been important in certain industries for decades, and increasingly important across most industries. However, SQM automation rates remain stubbornly low, with just 23% of respondents in LNS Research’s Quality Management survey stating that they’ve automated SQM with software (for more information, read this). Likewise, SQM best practices are implemented by just 24% of respondents.
Read MoreCategories: Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS), Supply Chain Management (SCM)
In this weekly Roundup, LNS Research explores recent announcements and events, such as IHS's Operational Excellence and Risk Management business unit is acquired by Genstar Capital; Dassault Systèmes acquires Ortems; Enablon is acquired by Wolter Kluwer Legal & Regulartory; and IBM and Cisco form a partnership.
Read MoreCategories: Operational Excellence, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Cloud, Big Data, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
In this weekly Roundup, LNS Research explores recent announcements and events, such as Honeywell Process Solutions introduces its new Digital Transformation business unit; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise launches its HPE Universe IoT platform; Hitachi launches an IoT business unit focused on sustainability; and SAP collaborates with UPS to improve its supply chain management and on-demand additive manufacturing.
Read MoreCategories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Smart Connected Assets, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
PowerPlex was held in downtown Detroit, April 25th to the 28th. A fitting location for the event, as one of the original cradles of American manufacturing and a success story for urban revitalization.
Categories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Cloud, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Last week I had an opportunity to attend the Infor Innovation Summit in NYC. This is the annual two-day analyst event hosted by Infor’s executive team, led by CEO Charles Phillips. This year’s event focused on the opportunity to increase workforce productivity, which has been stagnant since 2007 even though technology investment and use has increased significantly. For Infor, this opportunity is the next era of Enterprise Innovation
Read MoreCategories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
SAP has clearly been a company in transition over the past five years (let’s call it the HANA era) and this was reflective in the change of positioning and some in leadership at the past several SAP Insiders for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), MFG, Supply Chain Management (SCM), and the Internet of Things (IoT). Several years ago the theme was Idea to Performance and Operational Excellence. Starting last year and continuing to this year’s March 2016 edition of the event in Las Vegas, the positioning was clearly centered on SAP’s concept of the Extended Supply Chain.
Read MoreCategories: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Big Data, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), #MondayMusings
