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Graduation in a Changing World: What My Son’s Future—and Yours—Might Look Like in Engineering, Skilled Trades, or Manufacturing
Graduation in a Changing World: What My Son’s Future—and Yours—Might Look Like in Engineering, Skilled Trades, or Manufacturing Last month, my son gra...
Agentic AI in Manufacturing: Somewhere Between the LinkedIn Hype and Your Broken MES Server
Agentic AI in Manufacturing: Somewhere Between the LinkedIn Hype and Your Broken MES Server If you’ve scrolled through LinkedIn lately (between the re...
Read more →Why Manufacturing IT, OT, and Operations Can’t Get Along: A Love Story in Three Broken Parts
Why Manufacturing IT, OT, and Operations Can’t Get Along: A Love Story in Three Broken Parts By: A Disillusioned Factory Server Rack Ah, manufacturing...
Budget Season is Coming: How to Build a Winning Case for Manufacturing Technology Investments
Budget Season is Coming: How to Build a Winning Case for Manufacturing Technology Investments Ah, budget season. The time of year when every departmen...
Read more →So You’ve Been Acquired. Now What? A Manufacturing Engineer’s Guide to Winning the Transition—and Your Bonus
So You’ve Been Acquired. Now What? A Manufacturing Engineer’s Guide to Winning the Transition—and Your Bonus So, the announcement just hit: “We’ve bee...
Read more →So You Want to Buy a Manufacturing Company? Don’t Forget to Check Under the (Factory) Hood
So You Want to Buy a Manufacturing Company? Don’t Forget to Check Under the (Factory) Hood Private equity investors love manufacturing. It’s tangible,...
Read more →Why Private Equity Should Stop Ignoring OT and Smart Manufacturing (Before It Costs Them Millions)
Why Private Equity Should Stop Ignoring OT and Smart Manufacturing (Before It Costs Them Millions) Private equity diligence is thorough—except where i...
Manufacturing KPI Maturity Curve (Rev 1)
A practical guide to building metrics capability (not prescribing priorities)
Read more →Energy Crunch
That reshoring plan? Dead without power. Double demand. Same old grid.
Go 0-60 With Your I4.0 Roadmap
Stop waiting for perfect... Start driving process evolution
Read more →Manufacturing PE Valuation Drivers
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Read more →Dungeons & Deadlines - Episode 12: The Sage of K.I.S.S.
Introducing D&D chapter 12 (these are starting to add up)!
Read more →Dungeons & Deadlines - Episode 1: A Manufacturing D&D Adventure Series
The adventure begins...