by Zach Taylor | Apr 30, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Operations
With the onset of Industry 4.0, the push for new technology to automate workflows and improve the daily lives of workers is stronger every day. Investing in technology to improve worker safety, productivity, and ultimately improve the bottom line are all...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 28, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Safety
The form builders that many manufacturing companies invested in not long ago are like buying shoes for a teenager—you buy what you think is the correct size one day, only to discover those shoes are too tight a few weeks later. Form fillers are not growing to fit the...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 24, 2021 | Blog
The past year brought a significant paradigm shift to the way work happens across the world. Although technological solutions have been around to make it possible for some time, the necessity of keeping workers safe, product quality high, and operations streamlined...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 23, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Operations
As form builder software comes and goes, companies start to notice some problems over the years. While it is a starting way to digitize paperwork and free supervisors and workers from the limitations inherent in paper documentation, many form builder packages are...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 22, 2021 | Blog, Construction, Manufacturing, Safety
Investing in solutions to empower the connected workforce is not always a simple decision for senior leadership to make. For industries like construction or manufacturing, adopting new tech may seem like more of a burden than a benefit to the day to day operations and...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 16, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Safety
The phrase “connected workers” is buzzing around the manufacturing world like a restless beehive at the moment, and with good reason. Many in leadership positions are still on the fence about whether or not they should or could adopt connected worker solutions in...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Operations
The ins and outs of a manufacturing business are complex. Worker safety, production deadlines and intricacies, the scope of maintaining the correct manufacturing equipment and supplies, and cost management and efficiency. Ultimately, manufacturing operations managers...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Quality
In a fiercely competitive market, quality is a key indicator for success now, and in the future. In an earlier blog post, there was considerable discussion about ways that manufacturing leadership can benefit when connected workers are made an integral part of the...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 8, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Safety
Safety is and always should be the number 1 priority for manufacturing leaders. First and foremost, safety is the leading priority for the manufacturing leadership of an organization because of the people. Keeping your people safe and setting them up for success so...
by Zach Taylor | Apr 1, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Safety
Technology has completely changed the way we work. Especially for industries outside of the knowledge workforce, the non-desk workforce, technology is becoming an option for every part of the work process. One way technology is majorly evolving the non-desk workforce...
by Zach Taylor | Mar 27, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing
With all the talk of Industry 4.0 and digital innovation in manufacturing, we can lose sight of the very backbone of every manufacturing company: the people. The workers must be at the front and center of every discussion and decision made by manufacturing leadership....
by Zach Taylor | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Safety
With the continued digital transformation occurring in the manufacturing space through technological breakthroughs and disruption to the everyday routine, new initiatives have become critical for successful evolutions in the new world of advanced manufacturing. A...
by Zach Taylor | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety
With Industry 4.0 initiatives underway, you’ll often hear about advanced manufacturing initiatives that company leaders want to implement to remain competitive in an increasingly unpredictable environment. Over the past few years, a host of technological developments...
by Zach Taylor | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety
If you’re involved in the manufacturing industry, you’ve likely heard the phrase “factory of the future” before. It’s a concept that’s largely designed to automate and optimize performance and reduce operational overhead costs. And...
by Zach Taylor | Mar 10, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing
There’s one word that rings in the ears of operations managers the world over, and that is “productivity.” While constantly on the lookout for ways to boost productivity while making manufacturing processes safer, more efficient and cost-effective, operations managers...
by Zach Taylor | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing
Plant managers carry a huge responsibility for running a smooth, efficient, safe manufacturing floor, and they take pride in it. It’s also one of the positions most deeply impacted by Industry 4.0 and everything surrounding it. They have a lot of questions about how...
by Zach Taylor | Feb 25, 2021 | Press Release
FISHERS, Indiana (February 24, 2021). Anvl, a software company helping businesses protect and support frontline workers, is excited to announce a new In-App Messaging feature to help improve real-time communication between frontline workers and managers. This new...
by Zach Taylor | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Quality
Sometimes, we imagine we need to make trade-offs between creating the best quality product or settling for “pretty good” In today’s market, that’s not good enough. Fortunately, Industry 4.0 technologies make it both cost-effective and easier to create the highest...
by Zach Taylor | Feb 22, 2021 | Innovation of Work
Kristin VanSoest joins Robin on this episode of the Innovation of Work podcast. A graduate of Indiana University with a B.S. in Occupational Health and Safety Management and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University, Kristin is a certified OSHA Outreach Instructor for...
by Zach Taylor | Feb 18, 2021 | Blog, Manufacturing, Quality
Industry 4.0 has challenged the way business leaders execute their operations. Rethinking outdated processes and embracing new upgrades creates a better work environment, improves safety, and helps everyone have a smoother day on the job. Of course, those benefits...
