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Ryan Kershaw

Ryan Kershaw

Ryan Kershaw is a Senior Member with ISA and holds a Certified Automation Professional designation. He was in the instrumentation and process controls industry for over 20 years before moving to the IIoT sector. Ryan is from Toronto, Canada and is an Enterprise Account Executive with Litmus Automation and a board of directors member with the Canadian Process Control Association.

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    ABC: Why Accountants Should Love Industry 4.0

    Engineers have always pushed for more measurements of a process since they allow for greater control. Accountants feel the exact same way.
    By: Ryan Kershaw
    11 November, 2022 | 4 minutes
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    How to Improve Quality with Industry 4.0

    New methods brought on by the Fourth Industrial Revolution have either hypercharged previous QC/QA methods or brought on completely new ones.
    By: Ryan Kershaw
    20 September, 2022 | 5 minutes
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    The Basic Economics of Automation

    When determining the value of automation, one should be careful to ensure that the humans in the calculation are not undervalued.
    By: Ryan Kershaw
    26 July, 2022 | 9 minutes
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    OEE and Profit Forecasting

    Two primary calculations that are used in organizations are the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and the profit equation.
    By: Ryan Kershaw
    24 May, 2022 | 5 minutes
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    Information: The King of IIoT ROI

    There is such a high level of data available in manufacturing that it can become overwhelming. Organizations are limited in the amount of data that they can reliably contextualize and convert to information and are further limited in how much information they can act upon.
    By: Ryan Kershaw
    24 January, 2022 | 10 minutes
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    Organizational Strategy in the Era of IIoT

    Companies need to reevaluate their operations from the ground up to fully take advantage of IIoT.
    By: Ryan Kershaw
    10 December, 2021 | 4 minutes
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