LNS Research Industrial Transformation and Operational Excellence Blog

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 ...

Depending on how you count, I have been in the MES business for 40+ years (which is why I am a “Research Fellow” – because I am so old!)Yet, I am excited to report on some preliminary findings from recent MES work.

Compliance-centric EHS has produced diminishing returns at exactly the moment industrial risk is accelerating. With workforce tenure collapsing from a 30-year career to a 3-year job, fatalities have spiked since 2018 across manufacturing. Regulators, customers, and inv...