The courses offered in this catalog are a curated collection of learning materials that provide an overview of Industry 4.0. It is designed to provide resources that businesses can use to understand ...

The problem with data collection is that everyone wants to collect everything. However, this often leads to little or nothing being done with the data. Here's why you should start calculating overall ...

OEE stands for overall equipment effectiveness, a dimensionless parameter used to measure the efficiency of equipment, cells, production lines and even entire plants. More specifically, it is the ...

Manufacturing today is becoming steadily more competitive, and manufacturing businesses are always looking to improve the productivity — and the profitability — of their operations. As such, they must ...

Editor’s note: This is part one of a four-part series on understanding and implementing overall equipment effectiveness strategy. This series is sponsored by SafetyChain Software. For many food ...

Grade school math teachers are fond of saying that numbers can’t lie. Maybe so, but they can be misleading. In the case of manufacturing, it is a common standard to measure plant productivity by ...

The Industrial Internet of Things (or IIoT) is a key aspect of Industry 4.0—the fourth wave of innovation in the history of technology. As the trend towards smart factories grows, it is important to ...