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MES and ERP Data Integration

ATS

With insights from both systems, businesses can streamline operations such as machinery monitoring, maintenance, and cycle time, boost productivity, and create a culture of data-driven manufacturing. These tools then notify the finance department of the spending requirement and ask supply chain teams to order new parts.

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Bottleneck Analysis in Lean Manufacturing

ATS

Any point along your supply chain or production line where activity is throttled, for any reason, becomes a serious hindrance to your efficiency. These inefficiencies can result from outdated equipment, poorly designed floor plans, lack of human resources, inefficient supply chains and many other issues.

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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.

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Quantum Computing in Manufacturing

ATS

This blog looks at the potential impact of quantum computing in manufacturing, addressing applications, challenges and its relationship to artificial intelligence (AI). technologies are creating a “ smart supply chain ” awash with data, and quantum computing may be the only way to optimize the movement of materials and products.

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Knowledge for Lifetime

Dinesh Mishra

In addition to nurturing its vendors & suppliers to meet supply chain needs, it has also enabled 40-plus employees to become entrepreneurs by offering them Franchising Opportunities for Sales/Service/AMC. It believes in long-term relationships and the values of nurturance, innovation & performance excellence.

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Figure AI unveils BotQ high-volume humanoid manufacturing facility

Robotics Business Review

Figure AI designs for high production rates After building and internally manufacturing Figure 02, the Figure team recorded and analyzed cycle times for every process, from part fabrication to final assembly. It found the largest driver of assembly time started at the root: part count and manufacturing processes.

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Continuous Improvement - Part 1: Introduction to Operational Best Practices

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

This blog is the first in a three-part series introducing CMTCs approach to operational best practices through continuous improvement. Responsiveness is your ability to adapt quickly to customer requests, supply chain issues, market shifts, or internal disruptions. Responsiveness: How fast can we react?