BrandPost: Achieving a Fatter Bottom Line Through Skinny IT
Today’s supply chain management software can deliver real cost savings to manufacturers—but there’s a catch. The most robust platforms often require a major investment of IT personnel and budget. That...
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BrandPost: Slashing Costs while Improving Product Quality
Running a Better Business Starting on the Plant FloorReducing inventory used to be a forward-thinking strategy for cutting expenses. Today, it’s standard practice. That’s why the savviest...
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BrandPost: Growing Without Pain: How Three Manufacturers Are Beating the Odds
The fact that “growing pains” is now a phrase used mostly in business tells you everything you need to know about business growth. Although most executives welcome any uptick in revenue, few enjoy the...
View ArticleBrandPost: Shop Floor Safety Can Improve with Wearable Technology
Imagine a shop floor: forklifts buzzing, machines creating parts of all shapes and sizes, and workers performing various tasks in all areas of the factory. All of this happens simultaneously, during...
View ArticleBrandPost: A Platform for Change Found in the Cloud
Caltherm is one of the world’s leading suppliers of thermostats for diesel and automotive applications. For years, the company used an on-premise ERP system to manage its operations, but the system...
View ArticleBrandPost: New Study: Manufacturers Innovate Using Consumer Technology on the...
Who would have anticipated that the webcam – a ten-dollar product designed for video chats – would play a vital role in keeping manufacturing operations running? In a recent study, more than 130...
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BrandPost: If These Machines Could Talk: Machine-to-Machine Communication is...
Smart machines and plant networks aren’t new – they’ve been around for decades. What is new is how these machines, devices and networks are communicating. Smart machines can now share the data they...
View ArticleBrandPost: Big Data: Aggregated Cloud Data Delivers Value to Manufacturing
As connectivity to the cloud expands and captures every step of the production process— from the machines, people, tools and materials on the shop floor — new tools are evolving to help manufacturers...
View ArticleBrandPost: For Real-Time Decision-Making, Manufacturers Are Thinking Mobile
Manufacturers are no longer racing to put more desktop and laptop computers on the shop floor. The world is mobile—and manufacturers are following suit. Cloud-based ERP systems make it easy to support...
View ArticleBrandPost: Why Are Partners Clamoring to Work with These Manufacturers?
When supply chain partners talk past each other, production comes to a standstill and customer service levels suffer. But when partners find effective, “always-on” ways to communicate, there’s no...
View ArticleBrandPost: Big Data, Bigger Results: Manufacturers Are Winning in the Cloud
From inventory tracking to supply chain transparency, manufacturers have always been pioneers in the capture and use of data for real-time business operations. But today’s leaders are taking that up...
View ArticleBrandPost: From Mainframe to the Cloud: The History of ERP Software
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is one of the oldest software categories out there. In fact, if you trace its lineage back to the original MRP specs outlined by APICS, ERP software dates...
View ArticleBrandPost: The Future of the Manufacturing Shop Floor: The Cyborg
Robots get all the press, but what about Cyborgs?No, this isn’t science fiction and I’m not talking about some sinister dystopian dream where computers turn people into centrally controlled zombie...
View ArticleBrandPost: Three Ways Technology Helps Food Producers Stay Nimble in a...
Change is a constant in every industry. But few markets change as quickly as food. As people’s tastes evolve, food producers must evolve too—or risk getting left out of the shopping cart.Food...
View ArticleBrandPost: Manufacturers Find Three Unexpected Game-Changers in the Cloud
The cloud is rapidly becoming the new standard for enterprise software. Organizations are moving their most important business processes beyond their own four walls en masse. The simplest way to...
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