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Smart manufacturing, MES, automation make good business sense

Control Engineering

Properly deploying an MES can result in reductions in material and labor costs, productivity and batch yield increases and reduction in material waste. BOMs define the materials and quantities that are required to make a product. When talking about smart manufacturing or industry 4.0,

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

Fastener News Desk

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 AM shouldn’t necessarily be the number one production method.

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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. So, whenever a manufacturing company leader asks me about these new terms or fuzzy topics, I remind them that the smartest people in the room is them. It’s on time, or it’s late.