The surprising industry that has adopted 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝟰.𝟬! Forget individual companies, currently the 69 famous “lighthouses” of excellence from the WEF. I mean a whole industry. If you stretch your understanding of what manufacturing is, I think there is a good example. To be nit-picky about it, I don’t think…

The graphic shows a handful of technologies that are making IIoT, Smart Manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 possible. But there are a lot more! The difficulty is that much of the terminology originates from outside the manufacturing community, from the consumer electronics, telecommunications, or SCADA industries for example. So even if…

Excerpt from book published in 2021, available in paperback and Ebook with the link below. More than 120 terms defined from 3D printing to Zigbee. The year 2021 is turning out to be a pivotable one in the world of manufacturing! As I write these lines in March 2021, the…

You know all those best-selling books that have titles like “XYZ for Dummies!” and “ABC for Idiots”? Well there are a lot of online equivalents for website building platforms that make claims like: Easy, no-code! Anyone can do it! Create a website in minutes! Is it true? Not in my…

A Fresh Look at Manufacturing If you are a student in the United States, there is a good chance that you are not considering a manufacturing career in your future. You probably don’t have close friends or family working in the industry and few popular shows feature it. My advice is…

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate using LinkedIn on an almost daily basis to learn about new trends or developments in Smart Manufacturing and education. And I try to share the few tidbits that I feel might be useful to others when I come across them. It’s the only platform…

If you are a student in the United States, there is a good chance that you are not considering a manufacturing career in your future. You probably don’t have close friends or family working in the industry and few popular shows feature it. My advice is, do not overlook it! …

MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES HAS A CHALLENGE WITH ITS IMAGE. WHEN THE MANUFACTURING Institute surveyed Americans about manufacturing, a career in manufacturing ranked fifth out of seven possible industries. The dilemma for manufacturing is the general population still sees industry jobs as blue-collar when they are increasingly white-collar jobs…