Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

MachineMetrics positions itself in the analytics space translating from operations to ERP. This solution integrates real-time data and predictive analytics into operations connecting directly to both ERP and machines. The post Automated Schedule Intelligence Solution appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection.

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Automation Cycle time Manufacturing 147

Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 7, 2025

Once known primarily as a business applications provider, Fusion5 has evolved in recent years to provide much more than ERP integration. Three levels of digital change When it comes to adopting new technologies or talking with an ERP specialist, Fusion5 typically sees three approaches. But Fusion5 sees more than that.

Function 69

Function Automation Manufacturing 69

Mold Making Technology

JUNE 1, 2025

Intralox Laser Welder Yields Fast, Precise Mold Repair Intralox's integration of the Alpha Laser ALFlak has significantly improved its tool room efficiency when it comes to difficult welds and urgent repairs. Delta’s case study on using Plex ERP for data management was insightful.

Automation 52

Automation Bottleneck Sourcing Robotics 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 11, 2025

ERP system benefits the backbone of inventory management Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have emerged as powerful tools for Australian discrete manufacturers to manage inventory. Reduced inventory costs: ERP-driven inventory management optimises inventory levels, reducing carrying costs and preventing obsolescence.

Discrete manufacturing 65

Discrete manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Supply Chain Bill of Materials 65

Cisco Industrial Automation

JULY 21, 2022

Current infrastructures are primarily ERP solutions that are only capable of tracking inventory within the enterprise boundary. Instead, the packages rely on human/user-effort to update the ERP systems on the latest inventory level. New Supply Chain Architecture.

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Supply Chain Value chain Automation Function 273

Automation World

JANUARY 16, 2024

The acquisition involves the integration of SaaS and ERP solutions tailored to motor repair facilities.

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Automation Mag

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SYSPRO has announced the integration of its ERP system with Adobe Commerce, facilitated by a new plug-in developed by ISV partner Room40 Coding. Through the partnership with Room40 Coding, the new plug-in integrates SYSPRO ERP and Adobe Commerce at a comprehensive level and is simple to install.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Additive manufacturing Function Manufacturing 52

Gary Mintchell

JULY 22, 2024

Thankfully the ERP “revolution” eluded me. ERP still tries to do too much with too little overall vision. AVA split from its former sister company in June 2020 and this transition kicked off an urgent search for a new ERP system. Inductive Automation entered the fray in 2003 upping the ante. I wrote a bit about that last week.

Automotive 130

Automotive Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Supply Chain Smart manufacturing 130

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 3, 2025

But why do so many businesses hesitate to modernise in powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions like NetSuite, when the benefits to productivity and efficiency are so clear? Why a smart ERP matters As ERP and digital transformation specialists, we help manufacturers to unlock their full potential with the right ERP solution.

Manufacturing 57

Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Supply Chain Warehousing 57

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software serves as the backbone of successful preventative maintenance strategies by providing a comprehensive view of operations, facilitating informed decision-making and enhancing efficiency. This proactive method helps avoid unplanned downtime and minimizes the need for emergency repairs.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Automation Manufacturing 52

Design World

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Eplan Forum is open to everyone worldwide who is interested in sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences with automated engineering, machine cabling, and ERP/PDM integration. With the digital transformation in full swing, the same applies to engineering. It’s an excellent idea for experts in the field to network: worldwide!

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Automation 130

iBASEt

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Seamless Ecosystem Integration Modern A&D manufacturing depends on interconnected systems across engineering, production, and quality functions. Integration with tools like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) ensures a unified digital thread, enabling complete traceability from design to sustainment.

Aerospace 94

Aerospace Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Compliance Manufacturing 94

Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If a limit value is exceeded, detailed root cause analysis is possible, even without moneo, thanks to the integrated BLOB ring memory. Since 1969, ifm has developed, produced, and sold sensors, controllers, software, and systems for industrial automation and SAP-based solutions for supply chain management and shop floor integration worldwide.

Industry 4.0 79

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Value chain Supply Chain 79

Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Many metalworking companies have already transitioned from manual processes to modern, cloud-based ERP systems, but AI is poised to take this transformation further. Once fully integrated, AI essentially becomes a subject matter expert, handling tasks more efficiently and enabling workers to perform their roles with greater ease and accuracy.

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Artificial Intelligence Lead Time Automation Manufacturing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Joint planning: Collaborative forecasting tools and integrated planning modules enable the synchronisation of production schedules, optimisation of logistics, and anticipation of future challenges. Optimise logistics, inventory levels, and production schedules through shared data and integrated workflows.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Logistics 57

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2025

Image: Summit Art Creations/stock.adobe.com Manufacturers Monthly explores Fusion5’s capabilities in project management and expertise with NetSuite ERP solutions. Streamlining production and processes When searching for an ERP solution, manufacturing businesses will pay attention to how it helps in enhancing production efficiency.

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Bottleneck Compliance Lean manufacturing Automation 57

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Grantek created a solution for SiO2 Materials Science , which was scaling up its production process and also investing in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. To get maximum value out of the ERP, they wanted to implement a manufacturing execution system (MES) to improve work-order handling and reconciliation.

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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Automation 94

Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Kemppi’s cobot-ready welding machines can be easily connected to many different cobot brands via their network of skilled system integrators. Innovating ERP for welders WeldEye is a comprehensive welding management software, supporting compliance with international standards and optimising production processes.

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Robotics Robotics Automation Industry 4.0 82

Machine Metrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

However, the journey to achieving a fully integrated, data-driven operation has proven far more challenging than expected. A 2020 McKinsey & Company study revealed that 70% of digital transformation initiatives fail to meet their goals, underscoring the difficulty of connecting factory operations with business systems like ERP.

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Manufacturing 52

Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 29, 2025

The article shows how AI can be used to amplify human expertise and allow shop-specific knowledge to seamlessly integrate with the shop floor. This article is clear evidence that AI’s capabilities will only grow as digitalization becomes commonplace in job shops, producing ever-higher quantities of AI fuel: data.

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Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Manufacturing Cycle time Artificial Intelligence 85

Robotics Automation News

JUNE 1, 2023

Enterprise resource planning, ERP, is transforming the way small businesses operate. ERP integration is vital for helping companies rise above the constraints that prevent them from operating efficiently. Companies without this advanced technology are doing themselves and their customers a disservice.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 98

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 17, 2023

Next gen ERP solutions enable end users to capture growth despite ongoing challenges, such as labor shortages and supply chain delays. But every ERP journey looks different. Traditional ERP Software Development . ERP solutions have historically been overly cumbersome to implement, and the accessibility costs have caused issues.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Supply Chain Artificial Intelligence 98

Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This explanation comes from the company’s website under the manufacturing tab— Digital manufacturing fully integrates planning, scheduling, quality, cost management, material movement and shop floor control. I have only a little ERP experience. I’m always curious about integrating the new acquisition into the existing structure.

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Lean manufacturing Digital manufacturing Form Automotive 130

DO Supply

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Add-on instructions (AOIs) and Device Level Ring (DLR), CIP Security and MES/ERP Integration, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Phased Motion Technology, Load Observer and Anti-Backlash Control are five lesser-known but powerful features that may not be known to everyone using these drives.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Function Control Algorithm 52

i4.0 today

MARCH 17, 2025

Global Shop Solutions, a leading ERP software provider for manufacturers worldwide, proudly celebrates the 20-year anniversary of John Davis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Davis began his manufacturing career working with a company that used Global Shop Solutions ERP software in their business.

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Manufacturing Advanced manufacturing Automation 52

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Pipelines are further integrated into the core of the Intelligence Hub and enhanced to provide highly configurable, complex, and sequenced data processing. Pipelines in the Intelligence Hub can now seamlessly interface with complex systems hosting transactional and historical data and sequence dependent transactions with MES and ERP systems.

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Manufacturing 147

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

AVA split from its former sister company in June 2020 and this transition kicked off an urgent search for a new ERP system. As a result, the company looked for an ERP solution that minimized hardware maintenance — a stark contrast to their previous experience — and could be implemented within their tight timeline.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) 100

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Function Manufacturing 100

Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 24, 2023

In addition to improving both productivity and profitability, there are underlying reasons why your company should purchase an ERP system. Centralised data While your ERP system increases productivity, it also eliminates the costly errors associated with manual, decentralised, and non-digital processes.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Bill of Materials Supply Chain Function 98

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2024

Modern manufacturing calls for advanced business management solutions, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, skilfully implemented, and supported by local Australian partners who intimately comprehend the industry’s distinct needs. This includes MYOB Advanced Business, Payroll, and Workforce Management. The outcome?

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Discrete manufacturing Assembly Line 105

Dinesh Mishra

JANUARY 22, 2025

SupplyPoints industrial vending machines bring advanced automation and data integration to the shop floor. Key features like biometric and passcode-controlled access, configurable storage for diverse tools, and seamless integration with ERP systems ensure tools are always available and in optimal condition.

Lean manufacturing 52

Lean manufacturing Supply Chain Aerospace Automotive 52

MESA

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Developing a Phased Integration Approach By Harneet Gill, MESA Marketing Committee Chair, Rockwell Automation The integration of SCADA, ERP, MES, QMS, and IIoT into a seamless operational framework is a key step toward realizing the full potential of Industry 4.0.

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Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Automation Manufacturing 100

Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 2, 2024

The MES in the company name basically tells prospective customers that Pico’s application resides between the control/HMI layer and the ERP layer. They don’t try to use the complex integration of ISA 95. He told me that their MES is bottom up rather than top down. That requires too much custom code (and I’d add, too many consultants).

Supply Chain 162

Supply Chain Discrete manufacturing Manufacturing 162

Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Discover 8 ways an ERP will put your manufacturing company on the road to success. No step is more important than the decision to select and implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. ERP is not just accounting or materials planning, as some people believe. A cloud-based ERP solution can help.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 104

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Compliance Electronics 104

Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

According to a 2019 study by Cloud Elements , 55 per cent of respondents believe API integrations are “critical” to their operations. ERPs are one of the top three business use-cases for API integrations. A key phrase that resonates with many is, “You dont know, what you dont know.”

Manufacturing 57

Manufacturing Lead Time Bottleneck Lean manufacturing 57

Gary Mintchell

MAY 3, 2024

Aionic Digital’s businesses encompass AI in technology consulting and systems integration for data management, systems integrations, customer engagement, and eCommerce. The company has announced release of Synapse, an AI-powered accelerator designed to address and overcome the challenges of systems integrations.

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Logistics Manufacturing 130

iBASEt

JANUARY 15, 2025

Is it worth the trade-off, say, of having the same vendor for both ERP and MES? There used to be good reasons for choosing the same provider for both ERP and MES, but those reasons have mostly disappeared. Manufacturers need an MES solution designed specifically for manufacturing, not an ERP extension.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Quality Management System Function 59

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 15, 2024

a global provider of cloud-based business management software and services, has announced the integration of its machine monitoring solution, Alora, with the M1 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is now available to users across the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Image: Miha Creative/stock.adobe.com ECI Software Solutions, Inc.,

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing 105