MAY - 20218 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSIN MY OPINIONListen to yourProcess to Win!By Paul C. Susalla, Corporate Manufacturing Technology Advancement Director, Parker Hannifin Corporation [NYSE: PH]You are a world-class manufacturer of your goods. Why then is your competition so close at your heels, or worse, beating you? What do they know that you don't?The key to success is gaining that last bit of efficiency, making the most of your equipment, tooling, labor, and maintenance activities. You do this by analyzing the essential data associated with everything you do in the manufacturing process. Note that this is different from collecting every known drop of data and creating a data lake. Instead, this is the process of Data-Driven Manufacturing (DDM). DDM has been around for quite some time, but many don't know what it is or how to use it. It is the discipline of collecting data, analyzing it to create valuable information leading to decisions based on facts to improve manufacturing processes. By "listening" to
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