Digitizing the manufacturing process via ERP systems can greatly improve ROI. However, it doesn’t come without challenges. For many manufacturers, there is a disconnect between what goes on in their factories, including their engineering departments, and the core business processes supported by their ERP systems. It creates significant lag times for management to access, analyze and act on data from the manufacturing and development processes. Not having this data in real time could create problems with planning, inventory control, the supply chain or meeting customer expectations. Barriers to incorporating data from machines on the shop floor into ERP are dropping.…