By Conrad Leiva, MESA
International Board Member and chair of MESA's Smart Manufacturing Working
Group
In a prior
blog post we discussed that Smart
Manufacturing is not very “smart” if we are not using communication standards
to connect equipment, people and processes in the manufacturing enterprise. In
this blog post we review the reality of adoption of integration standards in
manufacturing based on a recent MESA
and IDC Manufacturing Insights survey. The survey was sent to both
manufacturers and vendors that provide equipment and software to manufacturing,
and the results are shared below.
