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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff   | Abstract: | Ideas like the digital factory and the mobile enterprise seem to come up short upon execution. Are the gaps fatal flaws or part of a natural cycle? |
Why is there often a wide gulf between an idea and the actualization of that idea? Is it a matter of flawed execution or is the gulf just a natural occurrence that we really shouldn't worry about? Last month's cover package on the mobile enterprise and this month's piece on the digital factory both concluded that these ideas have a long way to go before they are fully realized, if ever, in manufacturing. Despite the fact that these ideas have been around for some time and, at least in case of the digital factory, have been expressed in different terms previously, big gaps exist between the vision of what they can do and what manufacturers are actually accomplishing with them today. [Click to continue] |