All Manufacturing Intelligence questions

• You pay for what you get!
  How can I find a best price of custom made software?

• MI Apps for Process Manufacturers
  We are evaluating an MI product called MVI (owned by CDC Software). We are process manufacturers in the food industry. What is your opinion of the product? What other solutions should we consider?

• MI Roll Call
  I know that SAP is a vendor in the Manufacturing Intelligence Market. Who are the other players?

• Key MI Barriers
  Hi Alison, What are some of the key issues that are inhibiting the adoption of MI with regard to the proprietary protocol alphabet soup at the control systems and device level (the old M2M argument)?

• Manufacturing Intelligence tutorial
  Alison: I need to jumpstart my understanding about Manufacturing Intelligence and how it can be implemented in the assembly line environments. Can you please forward me some literature or presentation which can start me going to understand this concept. Thanks

• Beyond BI
  Hello Alison, I have been tasked with investigating our options for a manufacturing intelligence system. As a very large Cognos user, we had hoped to extend those applications to the plant. Unfortunatley, it quickly became obvious that none of the BI companies (Cognos included) really had a clue about the plant floor. That narrowed our search to companies like Lighthhamer and Activplant. Many of our customers use Activplant to support CI projects at their assembly plants. Lighthamer claims that Activplant unnecessarily collects data into a data model creating "data redundancy." Frankly, I don't get it. Without data collection and a data model, we really can't get reports, KPIs, etc. that would be of value. Am I missing something? Terry