The Data Boom: How New Software Solutions Are Boosting Companies’ Visibility, Quality, and Productivity
MS Companies is leveraging the gig economy to deliver a data-driven, on-demand workforce to more than 600 U.S. manufacturing companies, and Zeiss facilities are more interconnected than ever.
In the manufacturing world, the buzzword “Industry 4.0” is on seemingly everyone’s lips for a reason. Not only do manufacturers have to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, but also with the changes in consumer trends that go along with it in order to survive, much less triumph, in an increasingly competitive and high-tech marketplace.
The average consumer relies on cloud-based communication and uses Big Data to solve problems on a regular basis, whether it’s through the use of smart phone apps in their personal lives or through more complex cloud computing software in the workplace. As a result, most manufacturing companies have instituted cloud computing and Big Data to not only elevate their quality management systems, but also reflect this cultural shift that has been ushered in by a new, tech-savvy workforce of 18-to-30-year-olds who either scarcely remember life before the Internet or have never lived without it.