MES is Dead! Long Live MES
This article, by Spruik Co-Founder Geoff Nunan, was posted in the Pulse on LinkedIn in August, 2018. It is even more relevant today than it was a year ago. We continue to see manufacturers struggle to implement COTS MES platforms and the myth of “out of the box” functionality is being pushed harder than ever. We’ve all been talking about Industry 4.0 for a [...]
Mind the Gaps
In American manufacturing, the idea that a gap exists between the Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) organizations is an almost universally held assumption. Most manufacturers you talk to will agree that this gap exists within their organization and that it’s a problem in need of fixing. Why is this belief so widespread? Could it have something to do [...]
Spruik Makes CIO Review Top 10 List for 2018
As the saying goes, you can tell a lot about somebody by the company they keep. In October, CIO Review magazine named Spruik Technologies one of its “10 Most Promising Manufacturing Technology Consulting/Implementation Service Companies” for 2018. This designation is tremendous validation for a startup like ours — one that is well positioned to help North American manufacturers transform Industry 4.0 from [...]
Your Current Data Infrastructure is Broken
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Introducing Spruik Technologies
Spruik Technologies was created mostly because of an recurring observation. After nearly two decades in systems integration for manufacturing, focusing on the integration of software products for the MES and data infrastructure space, it became very obvious that our clients weren’t getting value for what they were paying in software license costs and annual support fees. Somebody needed to provide [...]
