At PackIOT we are consistently looking for ways to help the companies develop strategies for their digital transformation journey. We are always reaching for new content, reading reports, looking for articles to help our leads and customers to develop a good strategy and creating new free tools and resources to deliver value back to the manufacturing industry. Earlier today, I read a McKinsey's report named Digital Manufacturing Global Expert Survey: Escaping Pilot Purgatory. Although the survey was run three years ago - in a completely different environment - it still brings some valuable insights into how manufacturers’ struggles when moving towards digital transformation are not different from country to country. It also brings some concerning behaviors by those manufacturers that are contributing to build what McKinsey call “pilot purgatory", which means that the manufacturing companies have significant activity underway, but are not yet seeing meaningful bottom-line benefits from them. Different companies from around the globe often make the same missteps when it comes to Digital Manufacturing strategy and implementation. In order to escape these so-called "pilot purgatory", and to capture and sustain the value from digital technologies, McKinsey recommended that organizations focus on six success factors, but…