How to Approach Make Vs. Buy Decisions for Optic Assembly
Before making a decision, it's important to analyze whether making or buying optical parts and components is the best approach for your team, budget, and business goals.
Purpose, Productivity, and Profitability - The Confluence of Company Sustainability.
The direct influence of a workforce in determining an organization's purpose can be as much, and, sometimes even more of a reason for an individual to enthusiastically and wholeheartedly work at a company as the financial compensation they receive.
Servitization in Manufacturing: How to Stay on the Top
Servitization is a business model, wherein manufacturers, i.e product-focused businesses aim to become a solution-based business. The goal of this transition is to create new revenue streams as well as to strengthen customer relationships.
Rethinking the Purpose of a Corporation
As someone who has spent his life engaged in driving growth at every level of business operation, it's always been evident to me that to be successful and meaningful to all stakeholders, a corporation needs positive purpose if it hopes to achieve sustainable profitability.
How to Declare Independence from Your ERP
Let's face it, evaluating and implementing new technology, especially something as huge and all-encompassing as ERP, is a daunting task. Many of us choose a technology solution that fits our needs now.
Project Modeling: A New Way to Think of CPQ Software for Large Engineer-to-Order Manufacturers
Creating accurate project proposals takes a lot of time and resources. You have to gather information from lots of different departments and people. There are a couple ways this can go from there.
Lack of Automation is Holding Additive Back
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has the potential to rewrite the economics of production. It offers the ability to create more complex geometries and structures than is possible with traditional methods, enables greater efficiencies and performance.
What Will Industrial Equipment Plants Look Like in the Next Decade?
The warehouses and industrial equipment plants of tomorrow will look different than they do today. Manufacturing technology continues to evolve as companies look to reduce their costs without sacrificing the overall quality of their products and services.
Industrial Producer Saves Time, Reduces Scrap & Satisfies Customers
Brodie International, a global manufacturer of high-precision liquid flow meters and valves for the petroleum and industrial markets, realized they needed a better, faster and more accurate way to perform quality inspections.
Reaching Manufacturing Job Candidates
As the workforce is vaccinated and reshoring the supply chain becomes a clarion call for industry, finding the right people with the right skills forces plant managers, operations managers, and HR managers to find new and innovative recruiting strategies.
Using 3D PDF to Easily Share Your 3D CAD Data
Organisations are having to find new mechanisms that enable their teams to quickly create interactive documentation containing representations of their native 3D CAD data, that can easily be shared with non-CAD users, their customers and wider supply chains.
Redefining Communications for Today's Mobile Workforces
The entire face of team communications has changed, escalating the need for alternate ways to communicate with the growing mobile workforce. Internal and external communications are merging as businesses strive to reconnect with disconnected teams off-site.
Manufacturing Resiliency and the Rise of Industrial Automation
To better understand how manufacturing is transforming into a high-tech haven, it is important to examine the most promising technologies and applications in industrial automation.
Speaking the Language of Manufacturing Engineers
Manufacturers of highly configurable products want to maximize engineering resources. By capturing knowledge and decision-making, the newest best-in-class engineering automation software speeds development of subsequent design iterations.
Shutdown and Turnaround: A 7-point plan
Shutdowns are a big deal. From planned inspections to the inevitable unexpected repairs that'll crop up, without impeccable planning and controls the scenario can easily escalate into a logistical nightmare.
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