Category: Blog
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Turning Culture Into Competitive Advantage: Lessons from McKinsey’s Next-Gen Operations Framework – Part 2 from Sellschop’s interview
Today we dive into part 2 of our 5 Part series discussing McKinsey’s Richard Sellschop’s insightful interview with Manufacturing Digital on how manufacturers can break free from stagnant productivity and thrive amid disruption. Sellschop emphasizes that organizational culture—shaped by shared principles and behaviors—is key to fostering innovation and trust. In manufacturing, a culture built on respect…
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How Industrial Manufacturers Can Drive Growth with Purpose and Strategy, According to McKinsey – Part 1
In Part 1 of our 5 Part series diving into McKinsey’s Richard Sellschop’s insightful interview with Manufacturing Digital, we will explore how Sellschopp suggests manufacturers can break free from stagnant productivity and thrive amid disruption. He identified five critical elements: purpose, culture, management systems, technical systems, and technology, as the foundation for “Next Generation Operations…
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92% of Operations Leaders say their Tech Investments Haven’t Delivered What they Expected
92% of operations leaders say their tech investments haven’t delivered what they expected. That number comes from PwC’s 2025 Digital Trends in Operations Survey, ‘Accelerating the shift from triage to transformation’. While it’s a striking/concerning stat, it lines up with what we hear from our conversations with folks in industrial manufacturing. The most common reasons…
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Are Your Continuous Improvement Efforts Reactive or Real-Time?
Are your “Continuous Improvement (CI)” efforts 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀? Or, if you are honest with yourself, are they a helpful, albeit delayed “fix” to the inevitable challenges presented on your production floor? Furthermore, do you have faith your CI initiatives are truly sustainable? Or do you feel like you are constantly awaiting the next big issue…
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The Problem with Most Digital Twins…and What You Should Do About It
Many manufacturing executives are talking about digital twins. Unfortunately, in practice, most of them don’t live up to the hype. The reason isn’t the modeling software. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮. If the data feeding the twin is 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲, 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 from the floor, the model ends up out of sync with reality. After weeks…
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Empowering Industrial Manufacturers with Passive Real-Time Location Data For Profitability, Competitiveness and Market Growth
Industrial teams are under pressure to hit dates, reduce waste, and protect margins. The hard part isn’t collecting more data. It’s turning what you already have into information your team can act on right now. In this on-demand webinar, we team up with RF Controls and RFID Know to show how passive RTLS and TegoHub…
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Radical Business Change Takes More Than Data Alone: How to take your asset management from data-enabled to data-empowered
By the year 2025, 463 exabytes of data are going to be created every single day. The accumulated digital universe of data stood at 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 and is expected to be over 40 zettabytes in 2020, growing by 10x in seven years. Most of this data lies in the hands of companies, but…
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Zero PM – Pipe Dream or Edging Toward Reality?
A recent article in Pharmaceutical Online on aseptic processes caught our attention, where the Parenteral Drug Association dared to ask the question, “What can be done to achieve zero particulates in parenteral manufacturing?” The headline took us down a few veins of an important thought-exercise: 1) By presenting the query in these terms, does the PDA…
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Can gamma-proof data stem the tide of aseptic manufacturing deficiencies?
In news that’s starting to sound like a broken vinyl record, instances of voluntary recall and FDA warnings continue to plague the aseptic manufacturing industry. To wit: Baxter issued a voluntary recall for more than 427,000 units of sodium chloride injection and 54,528 containers of dextrose injection, citing “a lack of assurance of sterility” as…