Bottom Line: Analytics expertise is a crucial driver enabling smart factories’ growth, with ten key metrics essential for keeping the next generation of smart manufacturing centers on track. 43% of ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturers seek to quantify plant, manufacturing line, and machine-level performance and find ways each area can be improved ...

While smart manufacturing is centered around digitally transforming manufacturing operations to create new and better ways of doing business, data is also key. Unlocking new capabilities, reducing ...

When looking at organizational costs, it is indisputable that operational metrics are leading indicators of cost performance. Indisputable, perhaps, but not widely known and infrequently used to ...

Generating the right resource forecasting, labor-hour scheduling or resource allocation information can be a challenge for project-oriented manufacturers. Tracking the right metrics is crucial when ...

The agency has developed key measurements for evaluating facilities, processes-- and even culture-- in an effort to help manufacturers produce quality products. With an eye on manufacturing ...

Already known and respected for its analytical capabilities, Metrics Contract Services has purchased new equipment that will speed testing for elemental impurities per new international guidelines. 30 ...

Over the years, measuring manufacturing performance has been an ongoing challenge for companies. Plants have operated in isolation, disconnected from the supply chain, or have employed metrics that ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. By letting data be your North Star, you’ll establish a strong connection between every aspect of your business and the relevant metrics, ...