Articles, news and notes from the field

During VivaTech, Rémi Mariambourg answered questions from Les Échos about Sycon’s approach and its deployments in the field.

Real-time connectivity is usually discussed in bandwidth and latency. On a production site, the only delay that counts runs from a machine drifting to the hand that corrects it.

Overall equipment effectiveness measures a week as readily as a year, but not in the same way. Pushing the cadence lifts the first figure and erodes the second.

Most sites already track more indicators than they make decisions. The sorting is done by asking, for each one, who reads it and what it changes.

The directive targets large companies, but their suppliers meet it first. By the time a buyer asks for figures, those figures have to have been collected already.

Many digital transformation projects fall short of their objective, often because nobody settled in advance what would count as a result.