-
2022 Retrospective
Our retrospective of 2022 To aspire for the stars, we must first be firmly grounded. In 2022, we at Numorpho Cybernetic Systems (NUMO) laid the foundation for our being by ideating and iterating on our theme – the pulls and pushes of internal and external forces, building our partnerships, and defining our construct for Industry 4.0…
-
Connecting the Dots
PROLOGUE Enterprises are comprised of a plethora of disparate systems that need to be conjoined to enable processing of information. Traditional systems that manage product data, enterprise systems, and customer relationships need to correspond with more agile and real time systems that are used for marketing, customer service, operations management. More recently cloud provisioning for…
-
Proto Factory
REFERENCE: The Scaling Imperative for Industry 4.0 Next generation factories require out-of-the box thinking – moving from linearized assembly lines to multi-dimensional robotic and building constructs. Here is a timely article by David Ramirez on what it entails to create microfactories of the future.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thinking-small-achieving-big-power-microfactories-david-ramirez-hdupc/ Industry 4.0 aka the Fourth Industrial Revolution, refers to the integration…
-
UC01 – Omni Channel Marketplace
Our first use case for Industry 4.0 – A blueprint for Connected Commerce Marketplace for Contract Manufacturing Utilizing the Digital Twine, we created waypoints (integration hubs) to manage the intersects between multiple systems as the ecosystem evolves to have additional capabilities. By starting with a Commerce Strategy to build a marketplace where OEMs, suppliers, 3D…
-
UC00 – Beyond Digital Transformations
Use Case 00 is about moving beyond Digital Transformation (DT). DT was about uncoupling processes for marketing, sales, commerce and support from the traditional brick-and-mortar model to convert them into real/near real time on-line processes. Called digital decoupling, it enabled the creation of product marketing content, setting merchandising rules, enabling eCommerce functions and building engaging…
-
How Matters – Adaptive Engineering Basis
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost PREMISE We are all part of a continuum – in genealogy, time, space, and history. We are but a stepping-stone in the ever-evolving intellectual science of design and engineering. The past two…
-
The Hard Problem of Automation
24/7 is synonymously used for something that is always on, so is 360-degree view for an all-encompassing perspective, and 365 to indicate that service is open every day, although in the last case I wonder what happens on February 29 during leap years? And then there is this question of whether 1900 was a leap…
-
Hyperstate and the Video Metaverse
PROLOGUE In prior articles, we had focused on innovation and automation as key factors to bring about disruption and change in the workplace, and our lives. But to truly move from robotic cyber-physical smart manufacturing that is the hallmark of Industry 4.0 to the more human-centric solutions of Industry and Services 5.0, we need to…