📅 Mar 2, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
Most intranet search fails for predictable reasons: poor indexing, permissions, duplicates, and tribal knowledge. Here’s a practical Phase 1?Phase 2 approach: fix findability with proper search, then add AI answers with citations.
📅 Mar 1, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
If you’re new to the term, here’s the short version: a Unified Namespace (UNS) is a pub/sub information architecture for industrial data. It’s not a...
📅 Feb 22, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
NCR, NCMR, and CAPA aren’t the same. Separate them properly and you get cleaner audits, better traceability, and quality trend data you can act on.
📅 Jan 31, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
Not just definitions — which manufacturing metrics matter, which are vanity, and how to implement them correctly.
📅 Jan 28, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
If I could only look at one number to understand a manufacturing operation, it would be first pass yield. Not OEE. Not throughput. Not on-time...
📅 Jan 28, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
It’s 6:47 AM. The day shift hasn’t even started and your phone’s already ringing. The main production line is down. A bearing failed on the...
📅 Jan 28, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
Every manufacturing conference, every industry magazine, every consultant’s slide deck will tell you the same thing: go paperless. Digitise everything. The paperless factory is the...
📅 Jan 28, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
OEE is supposed to be the single number that tells you how well your production is really performing. Availability × Performance × Quality. Simple, elegant,...
#Improve OEE manufacturing
📅 Jan 28, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
So you’ve recognised the signs. Your spreadsheets are creaking. Data’s being copied between files like a game of Chinese whispers. Dave’s formula empire is one...
#Excel Saga in Manufacturing
📅 Jan 28, 2026
👤 Nick
Digital Transformation & IIoT
Is your factory still running on Excel? Discover 7 clear signs it’s time to replace spreadsheets with proper database systems. 25+ years of manufacturing experience reveals when Excel becomes the problem, not the solution.
#Excel Saga in Manufacturing