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It's the first time I have heard someone finally put ERP in it's place in this context. An oil/gas customer of mine a while back installed SAP, and you should have heard them go on about how it was going to save the day. It was a total disaster. So many problems to get it to fit their operations. And absolutely no other system was allowed to connect to it. The IT department simply refused. It was like SAP was in an ivory tower. From my limited experience, this is truth Walker!

8:40 I agree! I'm a software engineer, I worked for IT and Engineering departments, and always have this issues... My last job, they want to automate a IVR process that according to the head of IT was only possible using 3rd party services bla bla bla... and would not work in real time... I did it inside the ERP database (SQL) and made it work in real time, I was able to create a POST request calling a REST API that was on the customer side ... all this in SQL ... and guess what... we didn't have a test environment ... did it straight in Production! lol

Great video Walker and Zack! Thanks for posting the whole thing. People starting out with an OEE in the 30's is pretty common. We've seen low 20's. Almost exclusively, they think it's better, especially when they are doing "calculations by hand". There is almost always that shock of the lines and facility being that low and needing to work past that shock and to allowing them to become more efficient. The data visualization is a big thing. If you've seen Our Hour by Hour Productivity video. Very similar, showing operators what is happening based on real time data of the lines. Big performance boost. Also with scheduling, understanding what change overs need to happen between runs and scheduling that more efficiently. We run into this a lot in food and bev with allergens. Wait for the forthcoming Corso series talking about all the "little things" we do to find make processes better, like changing PLC code, like updating HMI screens, most of those are looking at how machines were originally built, and talking to operators and maintenance staff to understand how we can help make their jobs easier. If they know it or not, they are a huge wealth of knowledge and we need to capture that.

Such an excellent video for a 3 week old in Industry 4.0., with no manufacturing experience.

Thank you for providing a holistic picture....I completely resonate with you that most of our plants need to comply I3.0 before jumping into I4.0.....

Honestly, your whiteboard videos are definitely my favorite. I'd love to see some more of these!

Thank you. Loved it. Still true five years later. The Boing did not age that well, sadly. But for other reasons. Came here from the DM talks. Thanks for the great content.

OEE is by far the most fundamental 1st step to kickstarting a digital transformation. Please become a genius 1st then start on your path to 4.0

The authority with which you talk is simply great and that shows the vast real experience you have in manufacturing IT domain. Very impressed with all your content. Grateful to you Walker and your team.

It really feels like industry 4.0 is an opportunity to restore focus to actual production. It’s always felt like an afterthought with past top down digitalization initiatives.

Perfect summary of my daily struggles! Thanks for the great video!

This channel and all the content is amazing. A real gem. Thank you

Walker at his best !! Finally someone putting the ERP in its place !

Just remembered when an Industry expert shares knowledge with us in College. Excellent Explanation! On point!

OMG! What a lesson! I don't work in any industries -- I'm just an English as second language teacher trying to find interesting videos for a student who is an engineer working in the food industry. I don't understand any of this, but I feel like this is gold and that we'll be able to have very interesting discussions in the upcoming classes with this video. I'm excited to understand the overall ideas behind all these systems (and I'll make him explain them to me lol). Thank you for the video and for the honesty in it. Just one question, though: I've just realized the video is from 2 years ago. Is all of this still true nowadays? (from the comments I can see it probably is)

Spot on !!!

simply superb Mr Walker....crystal clear. I am looking to deploy MES in 2022 and want to explain executive the benefits or ROI. This is best video available to have my thought process clear..

Indeed, not only manufacturing, in the telecom world too, they are conservative (ERPs)

I have no background by education. By career, I worked for a railroad wayside monitoring system which used PLC and SCADA systems and Oracle for database with several optical scan cams and sensors. What is MES? What is HMI? Can I request you to elaborate each acronym at least once at the beginning or on the first use? It helps people like me to understand and learn IIOT without self-doubt. I want to thank you for your authoritative talks. I can hear and see how much experience you have in this field. You are a master!

You’re so influential. I’m bit happy about your ranting as I quite relate. Kudos man 👍

One if the best real life examples of how a business needs to think differently to grow.

After watching Walker talk about OPC UA for the past month, I have learned more than any paid course I have ever taken, the sad part is that one course I took said that OPC UA was open source & can talk to ERP for the edge. I know there is more to design however, like Walker always says...how do you scale that? You don't

Oh my, that IT dept rant is very relatable

Wow.......What an excellent presentation !!

AWESOME, thanks.

OEE explained less than a minute. Thanks!

Excellent stuff, Walker. Although I wonder whenever you refer to "Business", there is a great focus on "producing and shipping things" and not at all on designing (R&D) and maintaining (after market) things. For example - one of the large IT budget suckers outside of ERP is PLM system (and that space is also undergoing tremendous changes in the context of Industry 4.0 ). Any reasons for omitting that space? Just saying from the completeness point of view.

Knowledgeable video. The shocking part was the OEE figure !!

I *really* enjoyed this, thanks! I think we're at a pivotal point with the increasing interest in IIoT, Industry 4.0, the promise of AI/ML, the Autonomous Plant etc. We might be able to convince the CxO's to crack open the IT stranglehold and build an entirely new manufacturing architecture. Hope so anyway! Thanks again. :)

The DNA of your business. I get the sense you were holding back on the rant portion of this :)

Great breakdown very helpful.

Where the link from design to get the product into the operational area - ERP onwards?

Awesome rant, thanks!

I know very little on the subject, but have been working in manufacturing for around 8 years. The rant is justified, everything you said makes sense and is spot on.

Excellent points made.

Your videos are gold and your channel is the gold mine

Where does Purchasing materials; Project managers; Designers; LEAN manufacturing methodology fit- under which category (also software can be used)? I would like to make a map of all possibilities to improve OEE and improve software usage, this would be helpful

Amazing.

Love this

Can you please make a separate video where you elaborate on the "Unified Namespace"? Is it a kind of API software form of Digital Twin recieving all data?

I LOVE this guy! He had me at, "And the people that are listening to them are becoming dumber." "It's all horse shit. They've been lying to you." Great Rant!

Of Course...the ERP rant. My Story: 1992...My employer's ERP/Accounting/Inventory was Mapics II (which was old even back then). A very good system if you ask me, even by today's standards. They just did not have the automated data input, or much analysis, because IT had trouble with it communicating with other software, and department turf wars. Plus, the interface required terminal skills (which few managers had back then). Spending on Oracle, Epicor, etc. were going to be "the fix" to the "problem". The core problem was transparency, and communication. On that note...is SAP really that much better? Interested in your thoughts.

Informative videos . Could you please create some video on RAMI 4.0

Very good video! Our company is deploying SAP which cost a lot of money and human resources. But still don't care about the MES or IIoT. I really want to show your video to the management team：）

With IT do you mean the Field Service Technicians or are you including the Applications team as well?

thank you 5:30 best part for me :)

we love the video walker! any interest in giving this or a similar rant to our large webinar audience?

Luv the statement. Most folks waste money on erp👍

Nice shirt!

Really like your videos but here not so sure. 1st connecting ERP to MES/scada/plc is super easy thus all realtime info flows down from the erp to the floor and back up from the floor. Also who wants to run different software for wms, shipping, billing... If you are running 10,20 50 mills you want a unified solution maintained centrally or even in the cloud today. Now MES and scada run locally but some wnet as far as running these centrally too

"I promise you I will humiliate you on camera!" ... Boom!

Where should someone learn, get certification or credentials, and then get hired

8:30 holy sh!t this is so true.

Shooting in 60 FPS?

That engine that runs unified namespace is actually the new middleware.

IIOT also called as Industry 4.0?

Epicor CRM is such a scam 😂 sunken cost fallacy hits hard

Just for reference: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ip-klMuCrtPZh30.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h6ecZaqczbqYeps.html I wasn't sure if you already have a video and I wondered if you can speak more to what security is available for industrial networks? What would be the best way to approach designing such plant networks? Does IIoT address security concerns?

The reason IT resists is that for some reason they've come to believe that the organization was built to sustain their role. Period.

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Mm. This guy is cute...

Oh my god, you actually think changing the PLC code is going to make a major change in machine efficiency? How much experience did you say you have??? No, the ACTUAL reason highly efficient companies are so efficient is by using decades old technology, like statistical methods, to constantly remove small inefficiencies from their manufacturing process on a daily basis. If you remove a 0.1% inefficiency 100 times in a year, you've gone from 80% to 90%. And companies like Toyota have been doing this for DECADES without Ethernet, IIOT, or any other fancy technologies. They just pay close attention to the real drivers of inefficiency, things most people ignore because they don't think it matters. This isn't new information; it's been out there for half a century now!