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11 04, 2023

A 10-Year Journey: Changing Green Practices in Manufacturing

By |2023-04-11T13:12:39+00:00April 11th, 2023|Manufacturing, MPI Manufacturing Study, Sustainability|Comments Off on A 10-Year Journey: Changing Green Practices in Manufacturing

Ah, 2010. Does it feel like yesterday... or a lifetime ago? We were two years into a recession. The iPhone was a new invention. The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the earthquake in Haiti, the passing of the Affordable Care Act: all on people’s minds. Remember the vuvuzelas at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa? It was simpler time. Maybe. It was also the year The MPI Group started tracking data on the green practices of manufacturing plants around the world. Ten years later, in 2020, we conducted our most recent MPI Manufacturing Study. Looking at the data [...]

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14 03, 2023

Digital By Choice – or Chance? An Interview with John R. Brandt.

By |2023-03-14T05:16:49+00:00March 14th, 2023|Benchmarking, Innovation, Internet of Things, Interview, John R. Brandt, Manufacturing|Comments Off on Digital By Choice – or Chance? An Interview with John R. Brandt.

MPI Insight: John, you work with manufacturers around the world on digital transformation. What surprises you about what you're seeing on the ground? John: Digital transformation has been one of the fastest management revolutions we've seen in manufacturing. MPI started studying Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 adoption among manufacturers in 2015 — because 46% of US manufacturers told us in another MPI study that they had never heard of an IoT strategy. What happened next was incredible: In just three years or so, we went from almost half being unaware of IoT to significant percentages of manufacturers [...]

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20 02, 2023

The Top Four Digitization Opportunities for Manufacturers in 2023

By |2023-02-21T17:11:36+00:00February 20th, 2023|Benchmarking, Innovation, Internet of Things, Manufacturing|Comments Off on The Top Four Digitization Opportunities for Manufacturers in 2023

Nearly 100 manufacturers have completed the Digital Transformation for Manufacturers (DTM) online assessment, a free benchmark comparison tool that enables manufacturers to measure the digital maturity of their organizations and helps them to identify opportunities for digital transformation and profits. The data points to four critical opportunities for manufacturers: #1. Business Strategy Only 31% of manufacturers completing the Assessment have digital strategies even partially implemented. Deploying a well-designed strategy is a critical first step on the digital transformation journey. #2. Network Infrastructure Manufacturers are recognizing that legacy networks and IT equipment and systems may not be up to Industry [...]

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7 11, 2022

Doing the Gemba Walk for Digital Profits

By |2022-11-07T18:34:43+00:00November 7th, 2022|Lean, Manufacturing, Process Improvement|Comments Off on Doing the Gemba Walk for Digital Profits

If you know lean, you’re already familiar with the “gemba walk” (quick refresher: the Toyota/lean idea of “going to the gemba” means to observe the work in the actual place where it happens). The Digital Transformation for Manufacturers project (an MPI collaboration funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce) has everything you need to know about how to take a gemba walk that helps your company become the digital leader it was born to be. How? By deepening focus: as a team walks through a facility, it identifies a digital weakness —and then team members wrap their cross-functional brains [...]

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