The Evolution from Clipboard to Manufacturing Intelligence
Today’s marketplace competitive? Only in the most Darwinian sense of red in tooth and claw. Customer demands continue to escalate and competitors become more aggressive. How does operational management adapt to meet competition while laying the foundations for continued performance improvement?
Consider a few decades ago when paleo-quality engineers emerged from the primordial operational ooze, clipboard in hand, to manually capture and analyze quality and operational metrics. Conversion of the data into usable information was slow and often incomplete. Most often only limited amounts of information could move up to provide management decision support.
That primitive level of process awareness is completely non-competitive in the 21stCentury.
Competition continues to evolve and requires modern Manufacturing Operations Management supported by Manufacturing Intelligence accompanied by more developed operational culture and infrastructure. Advanced manufacturers have moved beyond ad-hoc operations to Continuous Improvement and developed organizations that incorporate information derived from process data into the decision making process.
How can the manufacturer advance his people and systems to the next level?
Bill Palmer, Palmer Consulting has explored how people and systems evolve. In his upcoming webinar, “Creating Effective Data-Driven Decision Making Systems for Production, Quality and Cost Management”, he will guide the listener through the path of process quality management evolution with the accompanying growth of corporate capability to use process management and decision support to develop world class competitiveness.