Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

APRIL 30, 2025

A dramatic shift is taking place throughout the global energy sector as industries around the world intensify their efforts to reduce carbon emissions and implement sustainable practices. Annual production is expected to expand at a CAGR of 12.1% Are you ready to take the lead in the alternative fuels revolution?

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ATS

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Share Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a practical and effective means of raising Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). By involving production workers in caring for manufacturing equipment, it leverages the skills in the maintenance function, enabling preventive maintenance and higher levels of equipment care.

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ATS

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For readers seeking ways to improve performance in areas from machine maintenance to landscaping and security, this blog provides an overview of integrated facilities management. This increases flexibility and shortens response times while maintaining compliance with external regulations and helping reduce costs.

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MAY 1, 2025

Share Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools both play critical roles in production line performance. If production data formats are different in ERP than in MES systems, companies need to identify and implement a common standard. First is data formatting. Next is redundancy. The result?

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 8, 2024

I guess it was published at Automation World rather than my blog. They are back at CES this year with three additional products. This waste-free transient power generation is critical to the growth of the IoT, especially in the United States where consumers throw away more than three billion batteries a year.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Share A well-managed Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) storeroom is the backbone of efficient maintenance and production operations. A well-thought-out space allows maintenance teams to retrieve spare parts quickly, reduces safety risks and maximizes storage capacity.

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ATS

MAY 14, 2025

Share Uneven customer demand creates significant challenges for manufacturers: increased overtime, excess inventory, and wasted labor, among other obstacles. Instead, production leveling or Heijunka offers a proactive solution rooted in Lean manufacturing. Pitch , the standard interval at which work is released.

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ATS

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Stocking too little or the wrong items can increase machine downtime, but carrying too many ties up capital unnecessarily, requires more storage space and risks waste due to obsolescence. This blog looks at what AI has to offer industrial MRO. An emerging innovation in MRO operations is the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

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ATS

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Share Industrial machinery and equipment maintenance is an essential activity but seldom gets the attention or investment given to production. This blog describes how a holistic approach to maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) data management builds a solid foundation for improving operational efficiency. Contact us to learn more.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Unplanned boiler downtime will disrupt production and has the potential to be very costly. This blog explains what’s needed and why. Key components of boiler maintenance Industrial boilers burn natural gas or fuel oil (a few use other energy sources such as waste materials) and use the hot combustion gases to heat water.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

Major industries in Dallas fueling this momentum include aerospace, electronics, food and beverage, automotive, medical devices, and advanced production technologies. Texas Instruments pioneers semiconductor and electronics production, helping power countless consumer and industrial technologies.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

GE Power: The production of advanced power generation technologies in Greenville means a lot of innovation happens here. Michelin North America: Michelin not only manufactures tires in Greenville, but it also strives to bring about innovations in terms of sustainable production practices.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

ArcelorMittal : A major player in steel and metal production, ArcelorMittals Chicago operations support critical infrastructure projects and often align with city efforts in innovation and sustainability. Robotics, AI-driven analytics, and interconnected systems are delivering gains in productivity, cost efficiency, and quality.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 11, 2025

Image: /stock.adobe.com For Australia’s discrete manufacturers, inventory management is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation of production processes, maintaining product quality, and achieving sustainable growth. Discrete manufacturers often deal with products that have intricate bills of materials (BOMs).

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ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

Its about building a culture of shared responsibility and operational excellence that helps improve efficiency, reduce downtime and keep staff motivated. For example, lean processes focus on reducing waste. This may require an adjustment to the available parts inventory to limit waste without compromising safety.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whatever the focus of the Gemba walk, it can be an effective tool for continuous improvement efforts, helping guide efforts to reduce waste and adopt stronger practices. Implementing this concept on your production floor can be a powerful way to drive lean manufacturing principles and boost your overall productivity.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Share Customers don’t pay for waste. Businesses that reduce waste in manufacturing increase their margins and shrink their environmental impact. Along the way, they often find they’re utilizing production assets more effectively and have become more agile. Types of waste in industrial settings Waste takes many forms.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Share Industrial processes are extremely productive, but not everything they produce is beneficial. For example, equipment can generate a lot of waste heat as they operate. How cooling towers work In general, cooling towers reduce heat through the process of heat exchange and evaporation.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MAY 15, 2025

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the fundamentals of continuous improvement: shifting from reactive to proactive operations, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency through Lean and Six Sigma principles. Solving the wrong problem means wasting time twice : once by fixing it and a second time when it comes back.

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ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

Its also about ensuring products meet quality standards, that workers stay safe and that the business maximizes its ROI from the machine. Without robots, productivity and quality would be lower and costs would be higher. reduce the frequency of faults, they should be engineered for high-flex usage.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

These include some of the biggest names in domestic and international production, and the city continues to attract up-and-coming operations alongside established players. Coca-Cola Consolidated: Coke not only has a major beverage production operation based in Charlotte, but it also has a substantial presence in terms of its logistics.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

APRIL 28, 2025

Non-destructive testing (NDT) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure and manufactured products. By optimizing resource utilization, NDT significantly reduces waste, energy consumption, and material inefficiencies.

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21st Century Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Please welcome back Katie Brenneman, a regular 21st Century Tech Blog contributor. This IoT network of interconnected devices is transforming construction sites into cutting-edge environments that optimize efficiency, safety, and productivity using the data produced to make daily decisions. This is her 20th offering here.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

AI can even enhance maintenance in the production line. More intelligent and efficient robots are also helping us address demands for sustainability through energy efficiency, waste reduction, and smaller operational footprints. Editor’s note: This article was syndicated from the IFR’s blog.

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ATS

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog dives into the subject of manufacturing optimization. It covers how process optimization is part of production optimization and discusses why it should be done. This is done partly because higher efficiency means lower unit costs, but also because it can help the entire production operation work more efficiently.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MARCH 20, 2024

Small and medium-sized manufacturers with successful supply chains rely heavily on robust production planning. Optimizing the production plan, which takes into account the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished goods, can enhance a company’s operational efficiency, cost savings, and customer satisfaction.

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ATS

JULY 23, 2024

Share A large proportion of old or broken cellphones go into a drawer and stay there, which illustrates the take-make-waste paradigm of traditional manufacturing. This blog explores the meaning of a circular economy in manufacturing. For truly circular production, all products should be recycled when they reach the end of their lives.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It’s data, and rather than being used directly to manufacture products it’s a crucial component of how the industry builds its processes and procedures. For example, manufacturers needed to know their inventory levels of certain materials and components, their production timelines and their bottom line.

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iBASEt

JANUARY 8, 2025

Bridge the data gap between design engineering and manufacturing engineering Automate closed loop engineering change management for manufacturing Digitize production processes and workflows to globally scale production Improve supplier collaboration and interoperability for right first-time build Reduce millions of dollars in operational cost from (..)

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This blog explains what the term means and introduces the technology involved. These receive data from remote sensors (which may already have been filtered and analyzed by “edge” devices at the machine) and process it into information yielding valuable insights into the equipment, the process and the product.

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JULY 23, 2024

Share When product doesn’t meet the required standard it’s usually either scrapped or reworked. That’s why manufacturers serious about eliminating waste strive for Zero Defect Manufacturing. The logic is that driving down the occurrence of flaws and deviations from specification reduces waste and increases OEE.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MARCH 6, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explain the purpose of supply chain planning and break down its key components. This involves analyzing historical sales data, market trends, customer orders, and other relevant information to predict future demand for products or services. This is where supply chain planning plays an important role.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Share Synchronizing manufacturing operations helps eliminate waste and increase efficiency. High-volume production systems achieve this by linking processes. For situations where a linked production line is impractical, a kanban system can achieve the same or greater benefits, and at less cost. What is a kanban system?

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Infinite Uptime

JUNE 16, 2022

In this blog, we’ll share why IIoT machine monitoring is useful and how it can help you? Despite applying the best reactive and preventative maintenance strategies, industries lose a lot of money & time because of unplanned downtime, machine failures, and wasted maintenance cycles. Considerable Reduction in Waste.

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ATS

JUNE 4, 2024

Share The more energy a plant consumes, the more important it is to look at how it’s used and wasted. Even small improvements in industrial energy efficiency can yield significant cost savings, reduce emissions and support sustainability goals. Timers and motion sensors are inexpensive ways to reduce consumption.

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ATS

MAY 28, 2024

This blog explains the role of MOM in manufacturing. Manufacturing is about converting raw materials into products that customers want. Inevitably, this creates inefficiencies that increase costs, lower quality and reduce schedule adherence. What is manufacturing operations management (MOM)?

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ATS

MARCH 5, 2024

An important productivity metric, FPY highlights wasteful production and can be an important stimulus for improvement efforts. The purpose of this blog is to let the maintenance department know how they can influence FPY and why they should seek out opportunities to do that. What is first pass yield? Rework is expensive.

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