Digitalist Flash Briefing: I Love You: Supply Chain Personalization For...
Today’s briefing looks how supply chains performed for the 2019 Valentine’s Day holiday. https://www.digitalistmag.com/files/2019/02/sapdigitalist021119.mp3 Amazon Echo or Dot: Enable the “Digitalist”...
View ArticleHow Are Industrial Manufacturers Looking At Digitalization?
Part 1 of the “Digitalization of the IM&C Industry” series Digitalization is an ongoing journey. As innovative technologies become more mainstream, the pace of innovation and transformation...
View ArticleCloud Is The Foundation For Digitalization For Manufacturers
Part 2 of the “Digitalization of the IM&C Industry” series The first blog in this series discussed how industrial manufacturers are looking at digitalization. It is clear that digital disruption is...
View ArticleSmart Factories Mean Sweet Dreams For Customers And Manufacturers
Part 6 in the “Digital Manufacturing Series” Customers have a dream: personalized products that meet their unique specifications. Cars with custom paint jobs that stand out on the road. Sneakers with...
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Intelligence: What It Means To You And Industrial Manufacturers
What is intelligence? Is it getting a degree from an Ivy League college? The ability to speak many languages? Being to answer all the questions on your TV quiz show from the sofa? What about...
View ArticleWelcome To The Future of Manufacturing – Brought To You By Intelligent Asset...
For many manufacturers today, the focus of their business is not so much “making stuff” as it is delivering better business outcomes for their customers through asset-as-a-service offerings. What’s...
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End-To-End Processes In The Cloud: The Future Is Coming
New technologies, new business models, new opportunities for digitization, new innovations – overwhelmed yet? It seems the rate of innovation is increasing exponentially, and it’s a digital-or-die type...
View ArticleDigitalist Flash Briefing: What Manufacturers Must Do To Become Omnichannel
Today’s briefing looks at how becoming truly omnichannel will enable manufacturers to meet consumers’ real-time purchase expectations....
View ArticleIndustrial Manufacturers: Stories Of Innovation
Industrial manufacturers may not be top of mind when discussing innovation and disruption (think: grease, noise, sparks, and wrenches) – but that is an oversight. There is a huge amount of innovation...
View ArticleIndustry 4.0 And The Digital Supply Chain
Part 1 of a 4-part series Industry 4.0 is often equated with the idea of the smart factory. Manufacturers, it is said, can use intelligent technologies to automate and optimize the shop floor – thus...
View ArticleDigitalist Flash Briefing: Smart Factories Mean Sweet Dreams For Customers...
Today’s briefing looks at how smart factories can enable manufacturers to meet customers’ demands for personalization. https://www.digitalistmag.com/files/2019/03/sapdigitalist030419.mp3 Amazon Echo or...
View ArticleDigital Doppelgänger: 3D Point Cloud Lets Anyone Run A Factory From Anywhere...
The air is thick with anticipation. You defy the laws of physics as you free-fall into a remote warehouse. Your heart is pounding. Your pulse races. You take a quick look in every direction to get a...
View ArticleAutomotive Service Leaders: Accelerating Growth In Aftermarket And Customer Care
The automotive aftermarket is expected to reach a segment size of $1.2 trillion globally by the year 2030 (McKinsey, 2016). As such, customer care and service leaders need to prepare for this growth...
View ArticleSupercharged Supply Chain: Arkite Transforms The Traditional Assembly Line...
If you’ve ever bought a ready-to-assemble bookshelf or put together a child’s birthday gift, you already know what it’s like to work on an assembly line at an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)....
View ArticleThe Link Between Brand Perception And Supply Chain Practices For Manufacturers
We can talk all day about the billions of dollars in revenue potential and trillions of products that roll through a manufacturer’s production line, and we will still never get to the root of today’s...
View ArticleTechnology, Manufacturers, And The Power Of The Intelligent Enterprise
What technology can do today is mind-blowing. Without revealing too much about my age, I’ll just point out that things that we (and especially our kids) now take for granted would have been difficult...
View ArticleKinemic Gesture Control: Supercharging Tomorrow’s Supply Chain With Vision,...
The future of the digital global supply chain looks, well, weird. With small, almost imperceptible actions, assembly line operators move their arms and hands to control computer screens from across the...
View ArticleBuilding The Intelligent Supply Chain
Intelligent supply chain is the reinvention of the supply chain with emergent and intelligent technologies that have matured to practical use: The Internet of Things (IoT) makes business applications...
View ArticleRobot Control: Robots Manage Manufacturing And Logistics
Meet RAY and EVE. RAY parks cars for drivers. Meanwhile, EVE works in a factory, where she moves goods from the assembly line to the shipping warehouse. RAY and EVE are smart. They’re dedicated. They...
View ArticleUsing Asset Intelligence To Drive New Business Models
Many manufacturers of industrial machines have histories that stretch back for several decades. While tradition is important and valuable, the imperative to innovate is pushing these manufacturers to...
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