Jose E. Cabanes – Industrial Director of SPB As a manager in a medium-sized company, when I leave 4.0 industry forums I envy my colleagues who work in large multinationals. A pharmaceutical industry representative once told me that within their factories all over the world, they had selected a small group to perform a series...

Innovation always rises from the need to solve a problem. As stated in the Frascati Manual, the term innovation comes from the word in Latin „Innovare“ which means „renew“ either a product, an industrial process or service performed by a company. In an increasingly globalized and competitive market where supply exceeds consumer demands, innovation is no longer an option but a necessity to...

The current relationships that companies endure with their suppliers are far from what they were years ago. “Squeezing” your supplier to obtain the maximum advantages without taking into consideration the other party or believing that the provider is a mere recipient of orders has given way to better relationships, based on mutual benefit and collaboration....

Perhaps, study programmes or tutors haven’t been able to awaken the urgency in its students to realise that nowadays, many companies perceive statistics as a strategic tool in business. However, there are many stories of success which have set a turning point towards a better and more efficient business models. The most obvious success story...

4.0 Industry and productivity: The perfect fussion between MES and the Kaizen methodology Inevitably, any outline that we may read about the technologies that are part of the so-called 4.0 Industry will include the MES as one of its indisputable pieces. The MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) automatically extract the data about the most relevant operating parameters of the production processes that the operators themselves introduce. To a certain extent, they are like monitors that...