SAP has announced an end-of-life schedule for its core manufacturing applications, SAP ME and SAP MII. Known for their power and flexibility, these applications have long existed deep in the technical stack of complex, multi-site manufacturing operations. The total value of production that has happened on these applications is easily billions, if not trillions, of […]
The Problem: Data Without Context Data without governance is a breeding ground for errors. Wrong inputs lead to wrong decisions, systems don’t talk to each other properly, and finding root causes is incredibly difficult without proper tracking. The solution is not more data, but rather the right context for the data already available. Grounding AI […]
Organizations across many industries use parts of the ISA-95 standard to improve manufacturing operations and system integration. While the most well-known application of ISA-95 is for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), it’s also applied to production tracking, data standardization, automation, or real-time decision making. This outlines some key vendors […]
You don’t need to model everything. You only need to model what’s enough for your use case.
Contextualization is an enduring goal for people who work with manufacturing data. As with anything, a manufacturing object or measurement makes sense only when we can know its origin and can compare it to other values. Given its importance to all human experience, however, the way that manufacturers and vendors typically think of context is […]
