Zero to one: launching a new manufacturing project

In our manufacturing companies today, there are a lot of companies contemplating things like “Industry 4.0” and “smart factories,” thinking they have to accurately predict and plan their way, not knowing where to start, writes Paul Hogendoorn, a columnist on Manufacturing AUTOMATION.

To drive home his point, he channels a rhetorical question posed by presenter Shawn Casemore during a recent Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) conference: “How do you eat an elephant?”

Click here to read Hogendoorn’s one-bite-at-a-time approach for manufacturers as they kick-start “smart factory” projects.