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Transformation & Performance

An attempt to capture our thoughts around digital transformation and asset performance management.

Transform the Business. Not the Solution.

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Transform the Business. Not the Solution.

A little girl was helping her mother prepare a ham for a holiday dinner. She noticed her mom cutting the ends off of the ham for no apparent reason before she put it in the pan. When she asked her mom...

Digital Transformation IIoT

Feb 8, 2021

Digital Transformation on a Limited Budget

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Digital Transformation on a Limited Budget

Digital Transformation has become a rather common term in business conversations. There are many ways in which an organization can realize a digital transformation. It does not need to be expensive or...

Digital Transformation Downtime Genealogy Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Jan 25, 2021

Dashboard Success in a Transformation Effort

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Dashboard Success in a Transformation Effort

A dashboard provides a quick way to view the overall performance of your plant, whether it is operational or financial. Very quickly, you are able to drill into any area of concern. But their developm...

Digital Transformation IIoT

Jan 18, 2021

Don't Forget the Sensors

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Don't Forget the Sensors

Peter Drucker is a well known management consultant and author whose work continues to be used by modern companies. One of his more famous quotes is, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. A...

Digital Transformation Sensors

Jan 11, 2021

Asset Management Journey

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Asset Management Journey

Asset management is one of the best areas to start an IIoT journey. Many of the concepts of IIoT have existed within asset management for many years. The journey is the fundamental basis of a Reliabil...

Condition Based Maintenance Predictive Maintenance Prescriptive Maintenance

Jan 4, 2021

Industrial Transformation Journey

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Industrial Transformation Journey

In a previous post I discussed how companies add unnecessary complexity to manufacturing information management and asset management efforts. The efforts should be simple with well defined objectives....

Availability Digital Transformation Genealogy Historian Performance Quality

Dec 27, 2020

Adding a Little Context to your Data Analysis Diet

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Adding a Little Context to your Data Analysis Diet

Context in Baseball Growing up in St. Louis during the 1980s, it was hard not to be a Cardinals fan. They made their first appearance of the decade in 1982 and appeared again in 1985 and 1987. The 198...

Digital Transformation Downtime Historian

Dec 20, 2020

Decision Making with Advanced Analytics

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Decision Making with Advanced Analytics

A Decision Needs to be Made I have written here before about the some of the pitfalls with machine learning and artificial intelligence . There continues to be a misunderstanding about capabilities of...

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Dec 13, 2020

Correlation in Machine Learning and AI

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Correlation in Machine Learning and AI

Correlation not Causation Tyler Vigen is somewhat famous as a result of his Spurious Correlations Web site (and new book). He has identified numerous data sets that are highly correlated but clearly u...

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Dec 6, 2020

IIoT and The Underpants Gnomes

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

IIoT and The Underpants Gnomes

Southpark. Seriously? I admit it. I am a fan of South Park . At the start of the show, the creators warn us that the show should not be watched by anyone. And yet, I love it. On of my favorite episode...

Condition Based Maintenance Digital Transformation Historian IIoT

Nov 29, 2020

The Downside of an AI Algorithm and IIoT

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

The Downside of an AI Algorithm and IIoT

Can you see what the computer sees? In a recent study expert ophthalmologists were asked to determine the sex of a patient only looking at a picture of a retina. They were correct roughly 50% of the t...

Artificial Intelligence IIoT

Nov 22, 2020

Complexity and Industry 4.0

G5 Consulting & Engineering Services, David Schultz

Complexity and Industry 4.0

Occam’s Razor The concept of Occam’s Razor was introduced into our modern lexicon by Jodie Foster ‘s character in the movie Contact . William of Ockham , after whom the concept is named, was a 13th ce...

Digital Transformation IIoT

Nov 16, 2020