Not long ago, bulk material management involved dirty clipboards and measuring tapes to track grain, plastic, or cement inventory stored in a bin or silo. Enter digital transformation.
Organizations continue to embrace digital transformation to replace antiquated processes using high-tech instruments like BinMaster level sensors and accompanying software.
Culture Is Key
A 2022 study by Hautala-Kankaanpää said the adoption of digital technology and practices is not a one-time event, but an ongoing cultural change. It requires ongoing investment in digital training and resources.
“Firms with strong supply chain capabilities were able to better leverage the benefits of digitalization, indicating that organizations are investing in supply chain digitization as a means of improving performance,” stated the study.
Digital transformation improves supply chain resilience, automation, accuracy, and efficiency, benefiting people effectively collaborating in a digital system.
A 2022 study by Jiao, et al., looked at ways engineering and operations cultures could create a “new design,” which would achieve transformation by pulling expertise from a host of industrial and manufacturing experts and service engineers. For example, in terms of bulk material level sensors, this “new design” lens would ask, "Does it perform well? Does it interact well with users? Does it work well with other technology?"
BinMaster Promotes Digital Transformation
BinMaster designs systems to pool such technology partners. By bringing bulk material data from sensors atop silos to a secure cloud report, authorized users can access the same information in real time. Decisions and conversations bring decision makers the same data. It’s all about collaboration, accuracy, and transformation to automated processes.
REFERENCES
Hautala-Kankaanpää, T. (2022). The impact of digitalization on firm performance: examining the role of digital culture and the effect of supply chain capability. Business process management journal, 28(8), 90-109.
Jiao, R., Luo, J., Malmqvist, J., & Summers, J. (2022). New design: opportunities for engineering design in an era of digital transformation. Journal of Engineering Design, 33(10), 685-690.
