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Monday, Jun 3, 2013

Recently, Lloyd Colegrove, Director of Fundamental Problem Solving, Dow Chemical, joined us for a web-based discussion, “Maximizing the Value of Process Data – How Dow Implemented EMI”. During our conversation he outlined the three evolutionary steps he observed as Dow developed more sophistication using process based analytics:

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Join the conversation on May 15th when Lloyd Colegrove, Fundamental Problem Solving Director, discusses how Dow got its data together with an innovative new software solution for EMI that works with their existing infrastructure. During this webinar, Maximizing the Value of Process Data – How Dow Implemented EMI, Mr.

Friday, Apr 12, 2013

If you run a manufacturing company blind you will run it into the ground. Successful management requires good measures of performance, and that leads to how to identify the critical metrics and get the right data. On April 18, John Jackiw will discuss these topics in the online conversation, Metrics, KPIs, and Process Insights – Implementing High Performance Manufacturing Intelligence.

Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013

Maintenance is not the usual hot item on the corporate management agenda, but modern process-centric methods can change that. With Manufacturing Intelligence (MI) the plant can move from scheduled to predictive maintenance (PdM) and save the company a lot of time, effort and money.

Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013

During our last webinar, Transform Manufacturing Operations – A Conversation with Charlie Gifford, one participant asked “How does a small single factory manufacturer take advantage of MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) without spending millions?”

Thursday, Feb 21, 2013

The need for corporate-wide operations excellence has become well established but the evolution of support manufacturing operations systems lags the requirement. A common operations story is trying to manage a plant and a company’s supply chain with a disjointed collection of legacy departmental IT systems. While each disparate system once made sense, operations demands over the last 15 years increasingly replaced the focus of departmental solutions with an evolving plant-wide Manufacturing Execution System (MES).

Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013

During our recent web conversation Michael McClellan argued that the Production Process Management (PPM) model leads to the best use of manufacturing collaboration and intelligence. The process centric perspective tracks both how the business is managed and how production is accomplished. He defines PPM as a framework of process centric best practices used for corporate governance.

Monday, Jan 28, 2013

Collaboration is in the air.

The recent industry magazine site featured the article, Are “Black Swans” Colliding with your Global Supply Chain? which stated:

 “Effective collaboration remains the cornerstone of successful relationships, especially in today’s global and outsourced environment. …It also means engaging suppliers who are willing to share information about the product on-demand, to support efficiencies and effectiveness across the product lifecycle.”

Monday, Dec 3, 2012

Today’s marketplace competitive? Only in the most Darwinian sense of red in tooth and claw. Customer demands continue to escalate and competitors become more aggressive. How does operational management adapt to meet competition while laying the foundations for continued performance improvement?

Friday, Nov 16, 2012

Manufacturing is a long-term play. Systems are targeted not for the day or week, but rather for years or decades. Therefore, system development and improvement programs are long-lived as well.

What are the secrets of sustainable system improvement?

Mark Gavoor in his recent webinar The Right Data at the Right Place at the Right Time defined sustainable system improvement as:

Sustainable Improvement = Metrics + Lean + Process

Where the individual parameters are:

“With NWA Software, the data is always available and up-to-date.”

Dale Gu, Technical Director, Rockwood Pigments AP
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