Managing manufacturing organizations is not easy. And a lot of our customers look towards proven methodologies for achieving higher levels of operational excellence. So be it the Toyota Production System (TPS), Theory of Contraints (TOC), or business excellence programs like Oliver Wight’s Class A, there are things that we as vendors must understand about what [...] Read more »
Archive for ‘search’
Web-enabling databases
FridayJul 10, 2009
by Oliver
A topic tangential to ZOOMS is the Web-Enabling of Databases. The relational database world is dominated by text… getting into the database and digging the information out was/still is a major challenge. In fact, this year (2009), there are still people logging into a system to copy-paste the data into Excel spreadsheets for further processing. [...] Read more »
Semantic Search
TuesdayJun 9, 2009
by Oliver
So while ZOOMS is advertised as a “Google” for PI, it really is not a full-text search. Here’s why: There isn’t a lot of text in PI. Users go to PI to look at trends. Trends for troubleshooting a phenomenon in the plant. Trends for a preliminary look at experiments running in the lab. [...] Read more »