Smart Manufacturing Magazine: DECIDE4ACTION, OTD and Manufacturing Intelligence February’s blog “DECIDE4ACTION: The Birth of Simplified Decision-Making” introduced what sparked the start of DECIDE4ACTION. It was around 2011, Richard Bergeron was in charge of a Florida-based electronic capacitors manufacturer (Exxelia Dearborn). The custom-designed “top layer” software processed information across the organization and prepared people to make more-informed decisions....Read More

Our Developers: The Drivers of Your Customized Solutions   “DECIDE4ACTION is much more than a software company.” This is a phrase that we repeat often, internally and externally. Manufacturers and production facilities learn quickly that we can do and deliver much more than what they expect. We specialize in providing cost-effective, customized solutions for manufacturing...Read More

“First rule of engineering; beware prototypes.  Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn’t have all his own fingers.”   Simon R. Green From The Inside: A closer look at the CONNECT  By Tim Clark, President and an Engineer We all love gadgets and tools. When you are an engineer at heart, you want...Read More

  Stop Waiting. Get Started with Industry 4.0 and 5.0 I ran across an article from Rubber & Plastics News that got me to thinking more about Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0. Mainly that manufacturers and facilities across the board and across diverse industries seek the same things and want similar results. All manufacturers want...Read More

Implementing SCADA: Three Questions Plant Managers Need To Ask SCADA, or supervisory control and data acquisition, is not a buzzword or a trend. Today, it is a baseline for proactive manufacturing operations management. Techtarget.com provides a good definition of SCADA as “a category of software application program for process control, the gathering of data in...Read More