Manufacturing Analytics
Why manufacturing analytics fails without an operating question
Most analytics programmes start with data availability. The ones that create value start with the decision a plant leader must make on Monday morning.
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Thought leadership
Insights
Short, practical perspectives written for operations and business leaders in manufacturing organizations.
Power BI for Manufacturing
Designing Power BI models that survive the shop floor
Semantic modelling, conformed dimensions and disciplined DAX are what separate a dashboard from a reporting platform.
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Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is an operating model change
Technology is rarely the constraint. Ownership, data definitions and decision rights are where transformation programmes stall.
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Supply Chain KPIs
The seven supply chain KPIs that actually move margin
A focused KPI set beats a hundred metrics nobody owns. Here is the framework I use with manufacturing clients.
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Operations Strategy
Connecting shop floor performance to the P&L
Operational excellence becomes a board conversation only when improvements are expressed in financial outcomes.
8 min read
Customer Experience Analytics
What complaint data tells you about your operations
Customer complaints are the cheapest operational audit available to a manufacturer — if you analyse them systemically.
5 min read
Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance: start with failure history
Before sensors and models, most plants have years of unexploited maintenance and repair records.
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Lean Manufacturing
Lean and analytics are the same discipline
Both are about seeing reality clearly. Analytics simply scales the gemba walk across the enterprise.
4 min read
Industrial AI
Where industrial AI is genuinely ready
A pragmatic view of the manufacturing use cases where AI delivers today, and the ones still worth waiting on.
7 min read
Engineering + Analytics
The advantage of an engineer who can model data
Domain depth changes the questions you ask of a dataset — and the credibility of the answers you present.
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