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The Things I Would Tell My Younger Self When Entering The Manufacturing Industry

January 5, 2022

"What I learned is that no matter what you do, you cannot make everyone happy.” I spent a big part of my career in manufacturing and supply chain. It started right out of college. After a few years, I moved on to a team responsible for starting up manufacturing of new products...

Industry 4.0 and IIoT automation: Where should you begin the journey?

December 6, 2021

It’s important to select an application that clearly moves your organization forward into the Industry 4.0 IIoT revolution. At the end of the day (and at the end of this brief article), real-time information will allow you total transparency into your material flow—you’ll be able to see how each operation works, make changes on the fly, and compare performance across a variety of important parameters to inform change.

Podcast: The Women in Manufacturing Association | Episode 9 | Christina Pierce

November 15, 2021

On this episode of Women in Manufacturing’s Hear Her Story podcast, Allison Grealis sits down with Christina Peirce, Sales Operations Manager, Panasonic – IIoT Solutions Division.

The Easy Solution to Missing Parts

November 8, 2021

Scanning a factory floor for the material you need can be a tedious, time-consuming process. Can you locate the asset using only your eyes? We’d bet Logiscend provides a simpler solution.

3 Reasons to Take the Paper out of your Processes

October 11, 2021

“Paperless Manufacturing” starts with moving data from pages and labels to screens but goes much deeper to include automated data capture, industrial touchscreens, and direct connections between systems to avoid handling completely. Where are you on the spectrum?

Making Your Water Spider Role More Efficient

September 8, 2021

Reliable and accurate part replenishment is a critical component of smart material flow management. As just-in-sequence manufacturing becomes more and more important, replenishment strategies have to keep up to maintain schedules and satisfy customers.

The Power of BLE – Four reasons to get excited about new BLE technology inside the Panasonic Logiscend System

August 10, 2021

With the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) hitting the 10-year mark, there is no shortage of IoT technologies available. In fact, the key to manufacturers’ success so far has been their ability to correctly integrate technologies such as such RFID, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee to solve their unique business workflows. And now there is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

How to Use Industrial IoT to Overcome One of This Year’s Biggest Challenges

July 12, 2021

Even though manufacturing activity is steadily increasing as we come out of the pandemic, factories are not easily finding sufficient skilled or even entry-level workers to bring production levels back to where they need to be. It is more important than ever to leverage the efficiency and productivity gains that can be achieved with smart manufacturing and IIoT.

How to Successfully Implement Industrial IoT in 5 Steps

June 7, 2021

While more manufacturers are chasing the promise of IIoT and the transformation that Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing can bring, the overall success rate of IIoT projects is low. This is because it can be difficult to get a plant-wide rollout or even a proof-of-concept program started without key factors in place from the start.

Electric Vehicles Are Next In Sequence

May 10, 2021

Electric vehicles (EV) are in the news more and more—the investments manufacturers are making for their production, component sourcing challenges, new technologies being deployed, and tracking consumer demand for the vehicles worldwide.

Ed Nabrotzky: IIoT Evangelist

April 5, 2021

Few people in the world, or even our company, are as much an IIoT evangelist as Ed Nabrotzky, our Director of Sales and Strategy. So, we recently asked Ed to tell us a little more about himself, the history of Logiscend, and why he feels IIoT is such a game changer.