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Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 4 – Measure

November 1, 2017

In this blog series, we’ve been getting back to basics. Product quality is rooted in the control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you get those right, you…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Dairy Industry 4.0 – Manufacturing Transformation for the China Mengniu Dairy Company

October 31, 2017

Digital transformation in process manufacturing is being exemplified in one of China’s leading dairy companies. The China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited, a conglomerate producing over 400 dairy produc…

By Elisabeth
3 MIN READ

NEW VIDEO: Digital Transformation through Closed-loop Manufacturing and Closed-loop Quality

October 25, 2017

The digital manufacturing enterprise of tomorrow starts with closing the loop today. Siemens’ Digital Twin and Digital Thread architecture enables collaboration among product design and engineering, …

By Alessandro Cereseto
< 1 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 3 – Machine

October 25, 2017

This blog series continues as we discuss the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. Part 3 focuses on control of machines.
In the previous blogs, we said that the p…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Siemens MEAC to Host Workshop in Chicago

October 24, 2017

Siemens’ MEAC (MOM Expertise Alliance Center) is a community of highly skilled and strategic alliance partners providing MOM-specific services to manufacturers. These organizations provide high-perfo…

By Eric Mitchell
2 MIN READ

Gruppo Campari Adopts Comprehensive Process Manufacturing Suite to Unify Global Operations

October 23, 2017

In a recent blog, we described Gruppo Campari’s (the world’s sixth largest company in the global brand beverage industry) adoption of an enterprise-wide specification management system, and its impac…

By Franck Malatier
2 MIN READ

NOW AVAILABLE: SIMATIC IT Preactor APS 2016r3

October 20, 2017

We are excited to announce the latest version SIMATIC IT Preactor APS has been released! Version 2016r3 offers improved integration, reporting, and visualization.

SIMATIC IT Preactor sof…

By Franck Malatier
< 1 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 2 – Man

October 18, 2017

In the first part of our blog in this series, we made the observation that, despite the environment of change we see in the manufacturing industry today, some things always stay the same. Like the ba…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Gruppo Campari Digitalizes Global Specification Management to Streamline Process Manufacturing

October 16, 2017

Gruppo Campari is the world’s sixth-largest company in the global brand beverage industry with over 50 premium and super-premium brands worldwide. With 26 acquisitions in the past two decades, the gr…

By Franck Malatier
2 MIN READ