Improving productivity has been a manufacturing goal since the beginning of the first industrial revolution. Getting more product out the door faster and cheaper has led to more innovations in ...

A new report from FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics suggests most manufacturers are “stuck between a rock and a hard place” when it comes to understanding their production environments. Research ...

Manufacturers everywhere feel they’re behind on mastering their use of operations data. The answer to that problem isn't ...

Data Collection Fundamentals provides an overview of the basic life cycle, structures, and qualities of common data used in smart manufacturing. Data collection describes the process of collecting and ...

Why viewing MES not just as a monitoring tool but a data contextualizer is critical to digital transformation, as it provides meaning to disparate machine and sensor data. How integrating control and ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...

Data is one of the most valuable assets your company possesses. This is particularly true for scientific data, which is the accumulation of many hours of parallel investment in resources, such as time ...