LNS Research Industrial Transformation and Operational Excellence Blog

Operational Excellence leaders rarely struggle to secure investment in capability development. Organizations continue to expand Lean academies, certification programs, and structured problem-solving workshops. Every year brings another c...

Assets are the cornerstone of industrial operations, and I don't mean the ones you'll find on the left side of a balance sheet; I mean the physical machines that run tirelessly in our fact...

The frenzy around Industrial AI is surging across manufacturing, and the excitement is real. But so is the risk. With 76% of organizations focused on accelerating AI adoption and 53% expecting these initiatives to resh...

In an age when manufacturers chase scale through AI, analytics, and automation, a misunderstood force is quietly determining success or failure: trust. Far from being a soft cultural attribute, trust is now an opera...

Manufacturing has been talking about interoperability for decades. OPC UA, MQTT, Sparkplug, the Unified Namespace, and dozens of other approaches have each promised to connect the disconnected. And yet, most manufacturers still ...