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Bottleneck Analysis in Lean Manufacturing

ATS

This means bottlenecks are in many ways the natural adversaries of lean principles. Any point along your supply chain or production line where activity is throttled, for any reason, becomes a serious hindrance to your efficiency. Allowing bottlenecks to exist in your processes and facilities hinders your true potential.

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Build Resiliency With Supply Chain Planning

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Global supply chains have faced significant disruptions in recent years. While pandemics, natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, and other disruptive events are inevitable, manufacturing managers can insulate their supply chains from their worst effects with proper preparation. What is Supply Chain Planning?

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Top 6 Challenges in Warehouse Management & How to Overcome Them

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

As covered in our previous blog , warehousing and distribution management is of critical importance. Your warehouse is like the beating heart of your supply chain. Minor problems can add up quickly, leading to issues across the entire supply chain. It reduces costs and strengthens your supply chain resilience.

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The Future of Reshoring: Building a Stronger & More Resilient Manufacturing Base

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

It presents an opportunity to strengthen local economies, improve supply chain resilience, and enhance long-term competitiveness. In this blog, we’ll explore some of the most critical factors to bringing business back to the States, like finding skilled labor and navigating infrastructure needs.

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MES and ERP Data Integration

ATS

Real-time data mapping between MES and ERP systems enables companies to act on relevant information and ensure consistency across operational departments such as production, maintenance, inventory, finance, and supply chain. The result is more consistent inventory management that reduces total costs.

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The Future of Smart Supply Chain with Industry 4.0

ATS

The importance of the supply chain is most easily illustrated by the vast scale of the repercussions that follow when supply chain problems occur. Supply chain digital transformation — driven by Industry 4.0 Digital transformation in logistics and supply chain. developments. implementation.

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Supply Chain Chaos: How Companies Are Responding and Adapting to the New Reality

21st Century Tech

Please welcome a new contributor to 21st Century Tech Blog, David Madden. David’s topic today addresses the challenge that COVID-19 has created on global supply chains and how companies are mitigating and adapting to a new reality. My wife and I recently had our own supply chain experience. We repainted.