Falkonry is a leading provider of operational machine learning for industrial companies who are looking to achieve significant improvements in the throughput, quality and yield of their operations. Their ready-to-use machine learning system, Falkonry LRS, enables operations teams to discover patterns hidden in their existing operations data. It also helps apply predictive analytics and receive actionable insights, all without requiring data scientists.
Read More →Driving Digital Destiny: Digital Reinvention in Automotive
Automotive firms need to rethink their organizations from the ground up through a process which IBM calls Digital Reinvention. The global automotive industry is at the vanguard of a digital revolution. Digital technologies are changing how people and businesses interact, creating unprecedented levels of industry dislocation and changing business economics. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers are reconceiving driving experiences through a prism of anywhere, anytime mobility. As a result, automotive firms need to rethink their organizations from the ground up. As the birthplace of traditional production chains, the automotive industry is transitioning from a vehicle-centric view to a state of deep, sustained customer centricity through a process called Digital Reinvention™. This requires automotive organizations to establish a new focus, new expertise, and new ways of working.
Read More →Be the Customer of Choice: How to Get Suppliers Working with You, Not Against You
In today’s economy, resources are limited – and that includes the shrinking pool of elite suppliers who can make or break your organization’s brand and product standing. More than ever, businesses must work to earn their spot on a short list of preferred customers to the best and brightest in the market. With the right partnerships, your organization stands to learn, grow, and evolve into your next big opportunity. This whitepaper by Intelex explores the following 3 tactics that are critical to a successful supplier partnership:
Read More →How a Safety Management System Can Save You Money
A software-based system for managing safety in manufacturing organizations may hold the key to unlocking efficiency, improving processes and creating safer workplaces that, at the end of the day, puts money back in the pockets of these businesses. Experts say that Safety Management System (SMS) support the ability of manufacturing companies to help change leadership thinking and cultures in reducing the number of workplace injuries through increased awareness of, and involvement in, safety programs, and ultimately elevating the important of and commitment to safety across entire organizations.
Read More →Gather, Predict, Change: How Smart Leaders Tame Risky Systems
Manufacturing organizations face an increasingly complex and unforgiving Environmental, Health & Safety and Quality (EHSQ) environment. Yet, many companies are still relying on traditional tools to manage EHSQ risks that fall short of meeting today’s challenges. Intelex Technologies’ white paper, “Gather, Predict, Change: How Smart Leaders Tame Risky Systems,” provides an overview of the limitations of traditional EHSQ management approaches and outlines three steps to developing a proactive, forward-looking, system-level approach to managing EHSQ risks. Get your copy today: http://bit.ly/2FVmYm2.
Read More →Transforming Health & Safety with Mobile Technology
What got us to where we are today will not get us to where we want to be tomorrow. Decades of awareness building, training, and record keeping on Occupational Health and Safety – spearheaded by private and public enterprises and prodded along by governments – have got us to where we are today. These efforts have moved us incrementally along a path over the past four decades from literally dozens of deaths per day in the US alone, to a quarter of this number today.
Read More →ISO 45001 May Be Particularly Beneficial To Manufacturing
ISO 45001 will heap a whole lot more responsibility on to the already full plates of top managers. The standard puts business management on the hook to create, orchestrate, maintain, monitor, develop and actively promote a system that takes occupational health and safety (OH&S) policies and embeds these into the culture and operation of a business’s everyday activities. The corollary to this is that leaders will need to find a way to ensure sufficient financial, personnel and time resources are devoted to the successful implementation of a management system for OH&S. At the heart of the ISO 45001 standard is a need for worker involvement through participation in decision making, evaluation procedures, implementation and feedback mechanisms.
Read More →Saving Lives and Limbs With Big Data – A White Paper by Intelex Technologies
In almost all cases, workplace injuries and casualties are preventable. Intelex Technologies, the leading software provider of Environment, Health, Safety, and Quality Management, has been capturing data on the events leading up to workplace incidents, the circumstances surrounding them, and the after-effects for over a decade, to provide data that can prevent workplace incidents from occurring. “In the white paper “Saving Lives and Limbs With Big Data,” Intelex Data Science Advisor Dr. Gary Edwards, challenges the traditional Safety Triangle as the ultimate guide to safety and explains their Data Science findings that have the potential for eliminating the most catastrophic incidents.” Learn about their findings and access their white paper here, http://bit.ly/2rkSMgU.
Read More →Highlights from the American Automotive Summit: Insights from Volvo, Ford, Toyota, and Kia
The 2017 American Automotive Summit was held on November 28-29 at The Henry, Autograph Collection in Dearborn, MI. It was an extremely successful event and we were proud to have top industry influencers share their thought leadership, including representatives from OEM’s Volvo, Toyota, Ford, and Kia. Here’s what we learned.
Read More →Industry 4.0 Realized: How BMW is approaching digital transformation
The promise of Industry 4.0 is being realized in the automotive industry, and BMW is at the forefront of the evolution of automated production. At last year’s American Manufacturing Summit, Dirk Hilgenberg, VP, Assembly at BMW shared with us how BMW is incorporating Industry 4.0 concepts to innovate at each stage of the production process, from design to post-market.
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