INSIGHTS
Insights
Notes on digital manufacturing, compliance and the NEO platform.

Manufacturing Execution
Review by exception is an outcome, not a setting
Reviewing only what deviated is the standard promise of an EBR business case. It is achievable — but only once the system can be trusted to decide what counts as a deviation.
Apr 20, 20264 min read

Manufacturing Execution
Weighing and dispensing: the step you cannot undo
Most manufacturing errors can be caught downstream. A wrong material in a vessel usually cannot. That asymmetry is why dispensing earns enforcement before almost anything else.
Feb 28, 20264 min read

Manufacturing Execution
OEE that means something: definitions before dashboards
An OEE figure is a statement about definitions as much as about performance. If yours went up while output did not, the definitions moved — and the number stopped being useful.
Jan 22, 20264 min read