Teaching Kids to Become Candy Optimization Machines on Halloween

Kids are natural scientists; they're filled with an innate curiosity and ability to leverage the information around them to solve problems. This Halloween, let's start preparing them for a future of using data and analytics to make informed operational and life decisions (ya know, the small stuff) with the help of Data Science Central. Whether or not COVID has you staying in this weekend, or even whether or not you have kids, get ready for some "candy optimization" fun. Because I don't know about you guys, but when I think about Halloween, data science and analytics definitely comes to mind.

The #1 Reason Your Industrial Transformation Could be Doomed to Fail - and how to avoid it

In keeping with the season, here's a stat from LNS Research that could scare you: Only 9% of companies implementing digitalization plans actually involve Plant Managers as part of their Industrial Transformation team. Nine! The author of this rather entertaining blog post from Industrial Insight was also shocked and here he breaks down why that's so bad. Give it a read, and then check out their link to the LNS article it's based on, which goes into more detail on how to avoid the potentially scary situation of transformational failure.

The 5 Stages of IoT/IIoT

Manufacturing success today depends largely on setting - and meeting - the right set of goals and objectives. This means taking a hard look at your organization's KPIs and moving them beyond traditional production and costs accounting to true, holistic measures of success. In this article featured in Smart Industry (which has nothing to do with the stages of pumpkin carving...I wanted to keep the theme going), Software AG's VP of Emerging Technology Jonathan Weiss identifies five key stages an IoT/IIoT project will go through as it matures and evolves.