Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence

Chapter Eight. Real-Time Manufacturing

	The solutions to the challenge of an 80% improvement in efficiency mandate are not within our own factories, but rather intertwined throughout the now real-time value chain and unleashed by innovative and direct connections to each other's data and operations.
	--Brian Jones, CEO of Nypro

Introduction

In the Inescapable Data world, the ability to compress product manufacturing time, tease-out inefficiencies, and increase product personalization combine to create significant new values made possible by omnipresent wireless networks, data exchange, and, most importantly, a willingness to tear down business walls.

For the past few decades, manufacturers have taken an incremental and inwardly focused approach to ...