Industrial Software: Boon or Bogus?

Hello!

Yes, we have "trends", and we have computers with sophisticated programs and softwares. It's one. What does for you is another story! What computer achieved up to now? We don't write anymore on paper, we type in the computer and print out later. So, we still use paper. We use the term "garbage-in, garbage-out".

It helps to communicate with others with rapidity when the both ends are able to go on the Internet.

Before we wrote books and told people what to do, including; how to create a World-Class-Manufacturing with higher productivity. The computer changed that? Did we put a certain method, a program on software to get higher productivity? The productivity as a word is a conception and understanding of the production. Production is to change one or many ingredients into another form(s). Production uses equipment, time, processes, wastes, costs, and individuals, which are moving and creating those another forms. We have ingredients before and we turn them into different things. Things are forms, number of pieces, new colours, and costs...

Software don't help workers to produce at higher level. Managers don't get too much help from the software, they need to design, do, and see the work. So, who needs the software? Nobody! It's an expensive but worthless item you can buy but you are entirely responsible for it. You have to do, see, repeat, see again, and understand what's working and why, and what isn't and why? If you don't know what you have to do, the software will not teach you the what, why, how, which and with, and when.

No one software is made for me! You will not find yours, just someone sells you soeone else's creation! Excellent idea and good business!

You create a business because you have a "product and/or a service" to offer as solution to a problem. No one software tells you the problem to solve, and create a business around that. Also, the software transfer to you or your organization errors made by someone else. What's your advantage with a software that everyone can buy and use? Where is the competitive advantage?

To be better, you have to do by yourself. My opinion is NO, Gil.