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Join the conversation on May 15^th 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.

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.

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).

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.”