{"id":77591,"date":"2018-04-07T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T06:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/putting-the-smart-in-manufacturing"},"modified":"2018-04-07T23:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T06:56:54","slug":"putting-the-smart-in-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/putting-the-smart-in-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"Putting the \u2018smart\u2019 in manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/putting-the-smart-in-manufacturing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough smartphones and tablets are ubiquitous, many of the companies that make our everyday consumer products still rely on paper trails and manually updated spreadsheets to keep track of their production processes and delivery schedules,\u201d says Leyuan Shi, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what she hopes to change with a research idea she first published almost two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>During the past 16 years, Shi has visited more than 400 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/manufacturing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">manufacturing<\/a> companies in the United States, China, Europe, and Japan to personally observe their production processes. \u201cAnd I have used that insight to develop tools that can make these processes run much more smoothly,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-smart.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-smart.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlthough smartphones and tablets are ubiquitous, many of the companies that make our everyday consumer products still rely on paper trails and manually updated spreadsheets to keep track of their production processes and delivery schedules,\u201d says Leyuan Shi, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That\u2019s what she hopes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}