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Instant Replay for your Plant
TuesdayJul 6, 2010
by Oliver
Instant replay has been around professional sports for a long-time. And whether you agree with how it impacts flow of the game, it is hard to disagree with the notion that going back to “review what happened” is not a powerful tool. Factory owners and manufacturers long have had the databases and the [...] Read more »
Back to the Toyota Way
MondayFeb 15, 2010
by Oliver
As the media continues to bombard the public with reports of Toyota vehicle problems, companies actively implementing lean manufacturing (a.k.a Toyota Production System or TPS) are trying to understand if there are limitations built into TPS. In a recent Forbes article, Yuri Kageyama examines why the accelerator and brake problems are out-of-character for a [...] Read more »
How important is analytics in decision-making?
MondayDec 21, 2009
by tony
A new IBM study was released today about how successful companies utilize analytics. They conclude that, “many enterprises are operating with blind spots and without management systems for effectively putting information into action.” Read the full reports here. In short, great companies make great decisions through the support of great analytics. Among the most interesting [...] Read more »
How to use ZOOMS
MondayDec 14, 2009
by tony
Don’t forget to check out our videos on YouTube that give you a quick tutorial on how you and your entire team can obtain PI data instantly through ZOOMS. No more 800-page manuals or 2-day training sessions. Just view these few 30-second videos and start trying some searches on your PI data.
Licensing
TuesdayNov 17, 2009
by Oliver
As our products end up overseas, we are looking to protect our software. That is, our customers’ investment in Zymergi (as well as our investment in Zymergi) should be protected. So as of our most recent release of ZOOMS, there is a licensing mechanism. The license file must exist, must be authentic from Zymergi. [...] Read more »
ZOOMS and Class A
SundayOct 11, 2009
by Oliver
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 »
Don’t Make Me Think
WednesdayJul 22, 2009
by Oliver
Years back, I got the first edition of the book Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. The book is about making websites usable… if your website (…your software) is easy to use, you will get more users. Since we wanted more users with ZOOMS, we designed the web-interface to PI with nuggets of wisdom [...] Read more »
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 »
Diminishing a Limitation
WednesdayJun 17, 2009
by Oliver
Eliyahu Goldratt is an internationally recognized leader in the development of business management concepts and systems. The originator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), he wrote the book, “Necessary, but not Sufficient.” Written as a business novel, the story of software and how software alone is necessary, but not sufficient to dramatically improve the bottom [...] 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 »