Why Are So Many Manufacturers Stubbornly Analog

Tech Soft 3D Tech Soft 3D For all the promise of digital transformation, some manufacturers run into a buzzsaw of resistance when it comes to digital change. Even as industries as diverse and supposedly staid as banking, journalism, and legal have been touched by digital transformation, manufacturing remains a tough nut to crack. The question is: Why? What’s getting in the way? For all the promise that digital transformation holds to help manufacturing reach new levels of automation and efficiency, there are still deeply “analog” aspects to the manufacturing world. This means that digital transformation efforts – and the solutions that are deployed to speed these efforts along – can quickly run into a buzzsaw inside the organizations that stand to benefit from what they have to offer. For software vendors, this requires looking at manufacturing organizations through the proper lens and realizing that making a transformational change means accounting for the way that these organizations actually operate – which often means accommodating a mixture of digital and analog processes and focusing on problems both large and small. The Persistence of Paper If digital transformation is a recipe, then two of the crucial ingredients that make this recipe work […]

You may also like...