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Firefighting in industrial operations

With the increasing pressure to reduce product-cycle times, the establishment of high-mix low-volume set-ups, and the possibility of supply-chain disruptions —as seen especially during the last year—managers and teams often find themselves in constant ‘firefighting mode’, having to react quickly and thoroughly to unpredictable events.

January 20, 2026

Plant-wide Supply Chain Collaboration & Alignment: The Ultimate Problem Solver

The sudden shift to remote working highlighted and exacerbated a long-standing challenge for manufacturers: barriers to communication and collaboration in industrial sites.

January 20, 2026

Why Business Intelligence (BI) tools aren’t useful for front-line workers?

After transitioning to the digital world by increasingly relying on BI tools to track performance, manufacturers are now perfectly poised for the next evolution: unlocking the potential of OI.

January 20, 2026

6 examples of how AI will disrupt manufacturing operations in the near future

Only 9% of digital factories were using artificial intelligence in 2020—there are many areas of the production process where we can already envision how the game will change forever.

January 20, 2026

How modern tools can help factory managers manage bottlenecks

In 2021, the overwhelming majority of factory managers are still reacting, instead of anticipating, to changes in manufacturing operations. That’s because they lack critical oversight—one place that centralises all the data they need to make better decisions.

January 20, 2026

Dissipating the fog of uncertainty to empower manufacturers

For industrial production managers, problems and hurdles along the production chain are a fact of life. Making sub-optimal decision often has snowball effects on costs, customer satisfaction and team stress levels. Established manufacturers are now at an inflection point, they can either embrace the new possibilities that technology offers or stick to the old ways and possibly risk perishing. 

January 20, 2026

Welcome to the World of Operational Intelligence

When properly exploited, data and AI are opening up the opportunity to move from reactive to proactive operation management by cutting through the fog of uncertainty. And that changes everything.

January 20, 2026

How MRO teams can think and act faster to navigate complexity

In a fiercely competitive MRO market, any unnecessary delay, any unexpected hiccup can not only gnaw at cashflow and revenue, but also translate into lost accounts and declines in market share. So it is essential to minimize turnaround time and provide speedy, dependable service.

January 20, 2026

How Operational intelligence has driven a threefold reduction in logistics turnaround times for an Aerospace plant

The need to data-process a constant inflow of repair orders involving impossible-to-anticipate spare parts and operations used to eat up most of the time and energy of planning teams, preventing them from focusing on priority areas and on value drivers. Until the adoption of Operational Intelligence solution Pelico.

January 20, 2026