If you’ve followed our evolution as a company, you likely know we started as an IT Services company in the 1990s. This is how we were introduced to the manufacturing industry and over the years through our manufacturing clients, began to understand the strategic importance as well as the challenges and opportunities which existed. When we opted to shift our focus to Smart … [Read more...]
Introducing the Five-Minute Gemba
Managed Solutions started out as a IT Services company in the late 1990s. Much like today, the late 90s to early 2000s were time of great change with new technologies frequently upsetting the old way of doing business. "Growing up" around this environment has shaped our business philosophy to be practical, adaptive and creative. Today, we are tasked with helping many forward … [Read more...]
You may need data management if…
It's no secret here that we love working with CIMCO Manufacturing Data Management (MDM). Over the last eight years or so, more and more of our customers have found data management to be an essential tool. Some with our nudging and many on their own recognizing how it resolves some significant bottlenecks. After a recent conversation with an IT manager at a prospect it became … [Read more...]
Data is Currency: Preparing for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks
Lurking somewhere in your computer systems is data that in the future will be able to improve awareness, efficiency, and profitability at your company. This is possible by allowing you to more readily adapt data hungry technologies such as AI, machine learning and neural networks.((The more data you have, the more accurate and useful these technologies are)) You've already made … [Read more...]
Traceability Using CIMCO Software
One way to help digitally transform manufacturing companies is to implement enhanced traceability. This can be useful to ensure that required tolerances and procedures have been followed, as well as provide additional data related to the manufacture of a given component or product. For example a company may need to provide documentation to show that a part was within all … [Read more...]
Paint your old Machines White
Have you ever driven by an old building with numerous broken windows? Broken window theory suggests if you do not repair a single broken pane that many others will end up with a similar fate. This psychology and it's impact on other things was indirectly touched on by Julien Verhille, an Operations/Lean Manufacturing manager in France in a recent LinkedIn post: Not everybody … [Read more...]