Knowledge Transfer: Diet Coke & Mentos
Today, knowledge travels at the speed of light. Information moves across the internet faster than any of the “old” media ever could.
As an example, check out the Diet Coke and Mentos trick – in the last few months, more how-to knowledge and see-me-do-it information has been shared on the internet than perhaps any other experiment.
If you haven’t seen how a few mentos can transform a 2-liter bottle of diet soda into a geyser spewing high into the air, then you’re missing out what every teenager already knows.
To catch up on this, check out any of these links:
100+ bottle diet coke symphony
Diet-coke house-jumping rocket
How to make a diet coke rocket
On a more serious note, the science and the approach to knowledge management in the processing and manufacturing industries must change tremendously too, especially in the next few years.
As senior operations staff near retirement, and as staffing headcount continues to be reduced in the plant, knowledge transfer and knowledge management becomes a very serious issue.
Both for customers and PAS.
At PAS, our web-based Integrity software represents the state of the art for knowledge management and transfer for the automation assets and embedded intellectual property in our customers’ plants.
Our customers spend millions, if not billions, on installing, configuring and maintaining automation assets – and other than the Integrity software, there are only point solutions for managing configuration information, inter-connectivity, data flow, and embedded intellectual property.
So when all those more senior people retire, who’s going to know how things work??
And that’s the exact problem we’re trying to address with Integrity. Click here to read more in another posting…
It’s amazing that knowledge management hasn’t become a bigger issue sooner…
Finally, be sure not to eat mentos after chugging diet coke…you can already imagine what happens, but if you don’t believe it, then click here (at your own risk).
Anyway, real coke gets rid of the kidney stones, not that diet stuff….
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