When and how should you move to automatic data collection? Dick Willis, Industrial Digitization Leader at Trane Technologies, a skilled veteran in the digitized factory industry, tells us how to structure data collection and reporting, and do it successfully. A solid structure of collecting and reporting data is essential in manufacturing, but data collection is hard. And, it's hard to do it well. 

"Show me that you were able to get the right data at the right time in enough time to fix it." 

There are quite a few hurdles to getting that structure just right. Two of those hurdles are a reliance on paper and pen and Excel reporting methods and meaningless measurements. Controversial, right? But, Dick has a point. These are barriers to efficient problem solving and valuable insight. So, in this episode of Zen and the Art of Manufacturing, learn when the best time to move to automatic data collection is and what that looks like for your plant.

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