May 23 2018
Using Data Science To Improve Manufacturing
If you google “data-science + manufacturing,” what comes back is recycled hype about the factory of the future. The same vision has been painted before and hasn’t come to pass, yet we are expected to believe that it will this time and that it will be a “4th industrial revolution.” Whether it’s true or not, this happy talk is no help in today’s factories. “Data science” covers real advances in the art of working with data, and the more relevant question is what it can do to improve existing operations.
Jan 30 2021
Of Bubbles and Arrows
Maps of symbols connected by lines are the most common form of graphic communication about operations, next to bar charts, pie charts, and time series. The symbols may be a variety of pictograms and there may be different types of lines, including arrows, double-headed arrows with a variety of arrowheads, with dashed lines of varying thicknesses…
This is about what you can do with such maps beyond communicating, and the challenges of mapping systems that don’t fit on one slide. It is also about improving current practices.
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By Michel Baudin • Information Technology • 5 • Tags: Database, Graph, Map, Network, Operations, Operations Management, Operations Research, Simulation, Statechart, Visualization, VSM