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Smart manufacturing, MES, automation make good business sense

Control Engineering

Using MES as a foundation, AI and advanced analytics can be used to build predictive and prescriptive analytics, which are used to orchestrate and optimize the entire manufacturing operations. Properly deploying an MES can result in reductions in material and labor costs, productivity and batch yield increases and reduction in material waste.

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Know Your Würth: CEO AJ Strandquist on How Würth Additive Can Change 3D Printing

Fastener News Desk

Written by: Matt Kremenetsky AJ Strandquist is a different kind of additive manufacturing (AM) CEO. That line going down has the potential to make the supplier’s customers stop production, too, because otherwise, they’d have to deviate from their bill of materials, deviating from their design, and, at that point, they become liable. “AM

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Industry watch: A short guide to demystifying ERP and MES

Automation Mag

smart manufacturing and digital transformation, and so on. Manufacturers deliver goods every day and every week of every year. That’s the manufacturers’ world – real, tangible and tactile. Whatever technology they choose to adopt should be on their terms, to suit their purposes and to fit their processes.