Manufacturing Intelligence
The Art of Making Factory Data Talk
Michel Baudin
MMTI, Palo Alto, California, USA
ISBN: 978-1-4398-2773-4, February 2012, c. 250 pp.
Written as an aid in obtaining information to solve factory problems, this text
explains how to work with the information systems staff to retrieve factory data
from the multiple and often incompatible legacy systems they typically reside in.
The author examines the three sources of information: direct observation of the situation;
interviews with knowledgeable managers, engineers, or operators; and
existing data. By presenting solutions for acquiring information, ways to analyze the
information, and systems of presentations, the book offers tricks to make the tangle
of obsolete and inconsistent legacy systems produce timely answers.