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Don’t Wait for Standards Before Moving Closer to Smarter Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

Smart Manufacturing has been making a lot of noise in the manufacturing industry, mostly due to how automation can greatly improve manufacturing operations through enhanced productivity. Also known as the “ New Industrial Revolution ”, this may indeed drastically shift the entire world of manufacturing. download ebook.

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What the Age of the Consumer Means to Industrial Manufacturing: A Conversation with IDC’s Simon Ellis

BlueYonder

But how does it impact industrial manufacturing? To get some Expert Insight on this topic, Supply Chain Nation spoke with Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies, for IDC Manufacturing Insights. How does this impact industrial manufacturers? Ellis: I think it impacts all manufacturers. If so, how?

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. We started charting public performance on Orbit charts studying the relationships between metrics and having conversations with manufacturing and retail teams about their results.

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Customer Success Coach Gay Groce Shares Insights on Maximizing Your eQMS Investment

Arena Solutions

I started working part time with their manufacturing division, which built product subassemblies. I was responsible for managing the revisions for assembly drawings and bills of materials (BOMs) , creating part numbers, and managing change orders in their manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system.

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Improving Supply Chain Collaboration: Connecting Data

Kinaxis

Maybe I’m stating the obvious but… a lot has changed in the world of manufacturing since Keith Oliver of Booz, Allen and Hamilton Inc. You’ll find the answers in the new eBook, 3 Ways to Improve Supply Chain Collaboration. Let’s zero in on the first of the “disconnects” explored in the eBook – data. Move over, 1982, it’s 2016.