A new report by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) has flagged analytics to identify root causes as one of the critical recommendations in their Quality 2020 Survey. The new report is available free from the AIAG website. It looks at data from across the...
If you’re struggling to make sense of manufacturing big data, you’re not alone. According to research published last year by The Economist, only 42% of manufacturers have what they consider to be a well-defined data-management strategy. Even more striking, 86% report...
Did you know that manufacturers with visibility to real-time metrics in manufacturing have a higher average OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) than those who don’t? According to the LNS Research Report: “Big Data – Driving Quality Intelligence at the...
Do you have a Data Wrangler wrestling data from your Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? Here is how the question came to me recently: “So we finally got our MES up and running, and I still can’t get what I need from it. Can you help?” Cutting acronyms from the herd...
What’s standing between you and your data today? In any given week I speak with a lot of folks who are searching for a solution to the biggest challenges they face today with managing data. Everybody wants to be “data driven.” And why wouldn’t...
Is Big Data too much data? Can it really drive performance? In a recent Data Heads guest post, LNS Research CEO Matt Littlefield stated that in their research of over 750 quality executives, nearly half (47%) reported having too many disconnected systems and data...
