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Management often throws money away to automate poor operations, with unmotivated and unskilled team members. Industry 4.0 is a wonderful excuse to try to solve difficult, entrenched problems by simply spending money. After all, it’s the future. But viewing technology as the solution comes with serious problems.
By Jeffrey K. Liker | |
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The 3-D bioprinting lab (Ozbolat Lab) at the Pennsylvania State University focuses on several potential procedures and applications in tissue engineering. Their goal is to implement solutions in applied medicine. With this in mind, the lab prints different types of tissues, such as bone, pancreas and skin, and their researchers work on applications in each tissue domain.
By Shantanab Dinda, Yang Wu and Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat | |
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It’s usually a hilarious game for fun when growing up, but all too often, engineering and manufacturing groups within an organization end up living their own version of “telephone” when they seek to align their data and processes. Manufacturing process planning (MPP) integrated with the traditional EBOM and MBOM processes provide a way to connect engineering and manufacturing to eliminate costly disconnects.
By Craig Currie | |
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Industrial and systems engineers of the future will be designing and shepherding living, complex-adaptive systems, not machines. To optimize organizational organisms, they will have to become something like organizational physiologists and psychologists together, two sides of one coin. The high tech of technology needs the high touch of motivated, engaged and cooperative digital-knowledge workers who find meaning and purpose in their work.
By Dave Guerra | |
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A well-planned and implemented retrofit ensures customers receive timely delivery of product, just as they would under normal operation. From the customer perspective, the transition should be completely seamless. It’s not easy to achieve, but it is possible.
By Dean Starovasnik | |