Jim Gavigan
5 Years in Business!!
Industrial Insight is FIVE, count 'em, FIVE years old today (December 7th, 2021)!! What a journey this has been! Many ups and downs. So...
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Jim Gavigan
- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
Life Lessons From a Sea Turtle
A few weeks ago, Kristina, Nick (my youngest son), and I went to the beach to do a little fishing since our annual mullet run is going...
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Jim Gavigan
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
SIMCA Multi-variate Analysis - Full Walkthrough and Discussion
We have been finding SIMCA an invaluable tool in trying to "eliminate ground" and find clues to some of the most difficult process...
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Jim Gavigan
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
Losing Subject Matter Experts In Manufacturing at an Alarming Rate
Recently, I spoke with Dave Griffith about just how quickly we are losing subject matter experts in manufacturing. I think this could be...
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Jim Gavigan
- Jan 5, 2021
- 1 min
Jim's reflections on 4 years in Business
Here is a playlist of me reflecting on 4 years in business and the struggles we have had. I also talk about where we are going and why...
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Jim Gavigan
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
RANT!! - You CAN collect TOO MUCH time series data!!
I am a big believer in collecting data an an APPROPRIATE scan rate and storing an APPRORIATE amount of it. Some processes (like the one...
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Jim Gavigan
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
How to Deal With Produce/Consume Data (Advise Tags)
We have been finding some interesting things in our data fidelity studies and people aren't seeing what they are expecting in their PI or...
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Jim Gavigan
- Sep 3, 2020
- 4 min
Why Compression Is So Important For The PI System
Industrial Insight's engineers have found in that every PI System the data quality is pretty low. This is not because the PI System isn’t...
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Jim Gavigan
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
How Advanced Analytics Projects Should Drive Data Quality Discussions
Last week, I had a little fun poking at advanced analytics initiatives that ignored data quality as a fundamental tenet of the effort....
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Jim Gavigan
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
How Data Fundamentals and Golf Fundamentals Are Alike
I see so many people try to throw Machine Learning and AI at problems with very poor underlying data quality. Then, they get disappointed...
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Jim Gavigan
- Jun 25, 2020
- 4 min
Plant Manager Not Involved in Digital Transformation? You are Doomed!
Last week, this blog from Matthew Littlefield of LNS research rolled into my inbox. The line that just leapt off the page was this one:...
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Jim Gavigan
- May 11, 2020
- 4 min
Visual Design Matters
Earlier today I was looking for a dashboard that showed COVID-19 cases in my county by day. Fortunately, I found one rather quickly. It...
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Jim Gavigan
- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
Power BI for Time Series Data For Dummies - Full Playlist
I think Power BI (Business Intelligence software in general) is a VASTLY underutilized tool when analyzing time-series data. Here, I am...
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Jim Gavigan
- Apr 22, 2020
- 9 min
Are you REALLY ready for a remote workforce? Part 3 - Tools
I have written the last two blogs more for the general population, but this one will be much more targeted at my friends in manufacturing...
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Jim Gavigan
- Apr 15, 2020
- 6 min
Are you REALLY ready for a remote workforce? Part 2 - Technology
(Shout out to Tom Fishburne at the marketoonist for the picture - https://marketoonist.com/2020/04/digital-transformation-2.html) This is...
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Jim Gavigan
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Business update - April 9, 2020
Here is a quick update on Industrial Insight, as requested by Dave Griffith. I give a shout out to Marques Young, AAMS® as we talked...
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Jim Gavigan
- Apr 8, 2020
- 13 min
Are you REALLY ready for a remote workforce? Part 1 - Culture
I am sitting here writing this on April 2nd, 2020 wondering what to make of everything that is going on around me. This COVID-19 panic...
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Jim Gavigan
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
CompressionInsight full demo with Paul Sheremeto
In this post, Paul Sheremeto shows how CompressionInsight works and gives a full demonstration of how to use the software. You can use...
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Jim Gavigan
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
Getting Data Compression Right With Paul Sheremeto
In this video, Paul and I discuss how to get compression right for your PI System and how their software gives you tools to be able to do...
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Jim Gavigan
- Feb 21, 2020
- 1 min
Why Data Quality is Important - with Paul Sheremeto, Part 1
In this conversation, Paul Sheremeto of Pattern Discovery talks with me about why getting good, quality data into the PI System is...
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