Business
2022: The Year of Ransomware
It’s no secret that the last few years have been especially dire when it comes to cybercrime. Several large scale ransomware attacks, in which cyber criminals use advanced encry…
Getting Rid of Old Hardware
Quick Announcement: We’re changing gears today. Moving forward, we’ll be focusing on general IT issues as they relate to the local Cincinnati, tri-state area. Stay tuned. Marc S…
Planning in the Age of 24/7 Distribution
Quick announcement: The day after we published our post on the chip shortage, Intel unveiled plans to build a new chip manufacturing facility in Ohio, which they claim will be t…
Chip Shortages & U.S. Manufacturing
At the risk of rehashing old news, the world is currently in the throes of a computer chip shortage, due in large part to stresses put on global supply chains by the COVID-19 pa…
Making the Best of Manufacturing KPIs
KPIs, or key performance indicators, are quantifiable measures of a company’s performance over an interval of time. KPIs vary from sector, company, and even department; but ther…
The Asset-Light Business Model
The internet of things (IoT) has brought about numerous changes in the manufacturing sector. Perpetually connected devices within a firm’s operations enable greater security, ex…
Data Lakes & Manufacturing
Innovations in industrial technology can make an operation more efficient and–potentially–more profitable. This is especially true when it comes to data collected and used both…
Innovation Hesitation: The Valley of Death
At the end of last month, Industry Week published the final installment of a series that predicted likely challenges for the manufacturing sector in 2022. The article features D…
The Internet of Things
We’ve covered both smart factories and industry 4.0 in recent posts. Yet, both of these phenomena are industry specific variations of a much larger technological trend that coul…
The New Industrial Revolution
Last week, we discussed the rise of smart factories, which are modern day manufacturing operations that use top of the line computing and technology to streamline their operatio…
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