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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

Quality Management that Shifts the Focus to Improvement

October 12, 2017

Quality managers have to spend some of their time putting out fires. The question is, how much? With the right kinds of continuous improvement processes in place, effective quality managers spend le…

By Claudia Basso
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 1 – Material

October 11, 2017

The more things change, the more they stay the same – translating a French proverb, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Wiktionary interprets this, “Turbulent changes do not affect reality on…

By Riccardo Consonni
3 MIN READ

Should Your MES be PLM-centric or ERP-centric?

October 6, 2017

The architecture of your manufacturing systems should be guided by your manufacturing process. Complex engineer-to-order processes, with multiple manufacturing orders coming from PLM, have different …

By Eric Mitchell
< 1 MIN READ

Ensuring Global Quality through Collaboration: 3 Areas to Watch

October 5, 2017

Today’s nuanced and networked manufacturing world spans the globe, yet wherever goods are produced and consumed, quality is an unforgiving expectation. Customers expect quality regardless of where a …

By Claudia Basso
2 MIN READ

FMEA as a Business Process Tool

September 28, 2017

More and more industries are discovering what the Automotive and Heavy Equipment companies have known for years. The same tools they use and trust to define, quantify and control risk around manufact…

By Claudia Basso
3 MIN READ

Product Complexity in The Automotive Industry

September 21, 2017

As the complexity of products in the automotive industry is increasing rapidly, companies must find ways to manage that complexity across the value chain and throughout the product lifecycle. A seaml…

By Claudia Basso
2 MIN READ