GainSeeker Kaizen – Leadership for a great launch (Part 2 of 2)

In my last post, I identified five leadership practices that help you prepare for a successful SPC Software launch. When it comes time for the actual launch, it can be a kind of white water experience where everything is coming fast. Your prep work enables you to...

GainSeeker Kaizen – Leadership for a great launch (Part 1 of 2)

Over the years, we’ve seen customers achieve incredible success with GainSeeker Suite SPC Software. GainSeeker adds thousands – sometimes millions – of dollars to their bottom line. In the process, GainSeeker empowers a cultural transformation to a data...

Three big issues with Big Data in manufacturing

When I talk with my customers about their manufacturing data, they don’t often call it “Big Data.” From what I can tell, they could care less about labels and trends in the IT world. They’re far more interested in how to turn their silos of...

Integration increases scrap visibility, drives down defects & costs

Situation High-precision machining company Exacto Inc. tracked scrap data in their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to monitor production and inventory. Once a month, Exacto leadership extracted scrap data into an Excel report for quality analysis. Critical...

Data driven with easy “Big Data”…

Last week I realized that I was having the same conversation with five companies in five different industries about becoming data driven and “Big Data”. I’ve signed NDAs with most of them, so I can’t share the particulars. But they all came to me with the...