Manufacturing Data Analytics in 2026: A US Plant Manager’s Practical Guide Manufacturing data analytics is a category that has suffered from over-promising for two decades. Every consulting firm has predicted transformative returns from “industrial big...
Manufacturing KPI Dashboards: What to Measure and How to Display It Manufacturing KPI dashboards are simultaneously one of the most-deployed and least-useful tools in US manufacturing. Nearly every plant has dashboards somewhere — on shop-floor displays, in management...
OEE in Manufacturing: The Complete 2026 Guide for US Plant Managers Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the single most important operational metric in discrete and process manufacturing. It measures what percentage of scheduled production time is actually...
Automation for Manufacturing: A US Buyer’s Guide for 2026 The US manufacturing automation market in 2026 is a $30+ billion annual spend category fragmented across hundreds of vendors. For a US plant manager evaluating where to invest, the difficulty is not...
Manufacturing Automation for US Plants: 2026 Strategy Guide Manufacturing automation in 2026 means something different than it meant in 2006. Twenty years ago, automation was primarily about hardware: industrial robots, PLCs, conveyor systems, automated storage. In...
