Subcontracting Process in Easy Way
Ordering sub-contracted services like powder coating, painting, electronic assembly, etc is a common practice used in any size companies.
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Serial Numbers – Get Rid of Tracking Headache
The ability to track sold products and trace materials that were used is important for maintaining good relations with customers and assuring quality.
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness – How to Measure It?
It’s of paramount importance to define and follow good Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that give easy-to-digest information on the health of your manufacturing operations. One of those is the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
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What Are the Benefits of Cloud ERP Solutions? [Infographics]
This infographic summarises it all for you: Source of information Khaos Control.
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Manufacturing cost – how to know it?
Knowing manufacturing cost is extremely important in order to offer competitive prices while staying in profit. To complicate the matter, the word cost shelters two different concepts:
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Importance of Sales Management for a Manufacturing Company
Following are the three general objectives of Sales Management: Generate sufficient sales volume; Contribute towards current profit; Ensure continuous growth of the organisation. Evolution of Sales Management has occurred in four phases:
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What is Revision Control in Manufacturing — And Why Should You Use it?
You can also listen to this article: Anyone who has worked in the manufacturing industry for a significant amount of time knows that there’s so much more that goes into production than simply making good products. There are procedures, methodologies, and manufacturing philosophies that make for truly successful, efficient manufacturing. Companies that employ these methods […]
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Reducing Inventory by Following Suppliers’ Discipline
You can also listen to this article: Because of anemic economic recovery, the reduction of inventory is crucial for manufacturers. In order to better manage inventory levels while still ensuring the right part is in the right place at the right time, manufacturers are increasingly relying on advanced information management solutions, according to a survey […]
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Manufacturing Production Planning — what is it?
Typically, manufacturing production planning is time consuming, lots of decisions have to be made, lots of different information has to be looked at, it’s labor rich and it is super easy to make simple errors. It’s often a lot of work and sometimes a real pain.
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Predictive Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, or Firefighting – What’s the Best?
A third of manufacturers consider their maintenance programmes to be reactive rather than planned or predicted, according to a recent study by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET UK) and Bosch Rexroth.
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Inventory control in manufacturing – easy!
Purchasing raw materials and having them ready is pretty much the first step of manufacturing. The following questions need to be answered 24/7 for efficient inventory control:
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Setting up Software for a Food Manufacturer
Mike, the owner of an ice cream factory, has his raw ingredients coming to stock in tens of heavy bags and containers. Yet each of his product needs only some grams of each.
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