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PLM and QMS Software Vendor Reference Checks: Key Questions You Should Ask

Arena Solutions

Software vendor reference checks can reveal how well the solution lives up to the vision marketed and sold. Naturally, salespeople only supply satisfied customers as references. This could include delivering a product similar in complexity (preferably same industry) or leveraging a supply chain strategy like yours.

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Workforce Optimisation in the Manufacturing Industry

Unleashed

It’s an essential process for achieving maximum success in manufacturing. Workforce optimisation (WFO) refers to the practices and tactics a company implements to improve its employees and organisational efficiency. Greater efficiency WFO practices improve manufacturing efficiency and eliminate waste. Let’s dive in. Here’s how.

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Technology Improves Manufacturing Disaster Preparedness

DELMIA Quintiq

Disaster preparedness is imperative everywhere, but that goes double for the manufacturing industry. With the right application of intelligent technologies, manufacturers and supply chain partners can more easily make proactive decisions, like diverting vessels and making other route changes. The Cloud and Data Resiliency.

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Take Advantage of Digital Manufacturing to Improve Workforce Productivity

DELMIA Quintiq

Much has been done to improve manufacturing efficiency. As the common linchpin that brings together all manufacturing activities, has this metric improved along with all the investment in new technologies? These benefits are often referred to as “soft,” given the somewhat subjective nature of measurement.

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Big Data, Analytics, and Industry 4.0

Enterra Insights

Despite years of discussion about the fourth industrial revolution (aka Industry 4.0), the revolution remains in its infancy. They write, “Industrial production was transformed by steam power in the nineteenth century, electricity in the early twentieth century, and automation in the 1970s.”[1] ”[3] In the Industry 4.0

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The Essential Reference Guide for a Supply Chain Leader

GlobalTranz

In this blog he provides a simple reference guide to better yourself as a supply chain leader. Dr. Muddassir Ahmed is a Manufacturing Operations, Procurement and Supply Chain leader from international multi-site manufacturing experience in Electrical, Hydraulics and Internet industries. About Author.

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Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution a Big Deal? Part Two

Enterra Insights

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (aka Industry 4.0) According to a manifesto from the World Economic Forum (WEF), “The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work, and relate to one another. He asks, “Does everyone have the same idea about the definition of Industry 4.0