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It's Midnight. Do You Know What a Truss Costs You?
A few years ago, Building Components of Idaho didn't really know what it cost to build a truss. The building component manufacturer, which is based in Nampa, ID, had workers fill out paper time cards and key them into QuickBooks. The data became hard to track due to inaccurate punches and incomplete timecards. At the end of each month, this data was used for job cost analysis. Estimated costs versus actual costs didn't always balance out, though. |
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Strengthening Your Organization with Business Activity Monitoring
Today's companies need to be quicker, more agile, and more efficiently productive than ever in order to remain competitive regionally, nationally, and globally. Business Activity Monitoring, or BAM for short, allows organizations to monitor and react to key aspects of their business in real-time. This ability to anticipate the multitude of twists and turns that exist within modern business dynamics helps organizations reduce the latency period... |
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The OEE Deficit: Why it can't deliver the results you require (Activplant Whitepaper)
In this body of work an evolution in thinking is introduced: the most efficient way to increase productivity is to focus on product flow through the process. The paper challenges the status quo by introducing the notion that not all performance metrics are created equally. While OEE is an accepted standard of measurement, it doesn't go beyond data collection. Instead, plant management needs to understand the meaning behind the data so that better business decisions can be made for the enterprise |
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What Screwdriver for what application? Screwdriver selection made easy.
Selecting a Power Screwdriver looks like a simple task, but how often does this seemingly “simple” task or “easy” application turn out to be more complex than anticipated? This selection guide should give some insight as to the different considerations that should be given when selecting a handheld power screwdriver to be used for mass production. |
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How to Select your next Screwdriving Equipment
Understanding your screwdriving equipment source does not have to be complicated. It is important to select the proper source by matching the intended purpose with the actual obtainable result. In short: detail the needed application as clearly as possible and match it with a source capable of fulfilling this need. |
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Matching autofeed tooling with your application
No autofeed application is identical to another! Each product surface should be evaluated in regards to its accessibility and special tooling may be necessary. This write-up was specifically done to remove the “mystery” of tooling and to help our clientele with product design. By using this specification sheet already in the product design stage, future “access problems” can easily be avoided. |
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What is your ERP solution NOT doing for your organization?
Most organizations have already implemented ERP to streamline manufacturing, distribution, and financial processes. However, existing ERP technology has left them frustrated in their efforts to extend the same level of efficiency throughout the entire organization. While ERP does a fine job of tracking manufacturing, distribution and accounting processes, businesses need to understand the context behind these transactions to truly maximize efficiency and effectiveness. |
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Do More with Less: The 5 Strategies Used by Successful SMB Manufacturers
A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff.
Manufacturers can position themselves for more predictable success and business growth, without increasing staff by considering 5 strategic planning guidelines.
This Guide goes beyond theory to include Best Practices from actual SMB Manufacturing companies who've made it work.
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Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Bottling
The solution for bottlers that addresses the everyday challenges faced in their industry. By eliminating the waste caused by constraints, getting more units/cases out the door with fewer resources is no longer a challenge but a reality. Whether the constraint is on a 12 oz. can or a 2 liter bottle of soda, the Throughput Analyzer will account for every second of production and identify with the touch of a button whether the root cause is a changeover issue, speed loss or downtime loss. |
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How to Embrace CRM and Make it Succeed in Your Organization
The concept of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is not a new one. Slogans, such as “The customer is always right,” and “The customer is king,” have long permeated the culture of many companies cognizant of the importance of their customer base as sources of future business. Today, as competitive pressures multiply, the concept of CRM is enjoying renewed emphasis as a way to add to revenues and gain market share. |
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Key Elements of Vantage Workflow Management
The Epicor Vantage solution is designed to meet the needs of discrete mixed-mode manufacturing companies. The product is delivered ‘out-of-the-box’ with built in workflow processes that enable an enterprise to manage the entire order cycle: from Marketing and Sales, to Production and Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, Installation and Service through to Financial Recognition. |
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Designed To Manage Lean Principles
Manufacturers are widening the scope and focus of lean manufacturing to encompass all processes that contribute to the bottom line. Lean thinking is now increasingly being applied to all areas within the organization – from sales and marketing to engineering and production through to finance and post sale service. The true benefits of lean thinking will only be fully realized when the entire enterprise adopts lean ideology. Epicor Vantage enables enterprises to attain this goal. |
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Davis Controls: ISO 9000 compliance process
Exact e-Synergy® has provided Davis with a framework to manage their quality management that encompass areas such as proper record keeping, customer feedback, training and development, and continuous improvement. |
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Gamma Vacuum: ISO 9000 compliance
Through their use of Exact solutions, Gamma Vacuum has been able lower the overhead associated with their ISO certification, monitor proper calibration maintenanceand tracking, a major ISO issue for manufacturers, and enable the company to more efficiently track and manage several other key areas of ISO 9000 compliance, including documentation, policies and procedures, customer feedback and corrective & preventative action requests (CPAR’s). |
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What consumers want in their shopping experience
Sterling Commerce conducted an online survey of 5,000 consumers to understand consumer preferences and attitudes when shopping online and in traditional retail channels. There were some surprising results. The responses provide tremendous insight into the consumer’s expectations for selling and fulfillment. |
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Intelligently Manage Your ISO Certification
In the world of ISO certification, the entire organization becomes a fundamental stakeholder in continuous improvement and quality systems. Businesses going through this process need to ensure that the entire organization becomes a part of the ISO certification, without creatingseparate isolated and fragmented electronic and manual ISO manuals, policies and procedures. |
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Developing and Maintaining Cost Effective Solutions and Strategies for Industry Regulated Compliance
It is important to understand that the adoption of an ISO certification is not a guarantee of quality, but more a testament to the existence of a set of consistent procedures defining the steps and processes involved in the delivery and manufacturing of products and services. This white paper will explore the use of technology today to help manage the ISO certification process, and the associated pitfalls that exist along the way. |
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Quatic Industries: Managing ISO 9001 compliance
Through their use of Exact e-Synergy, Quatic Industries has been able to provide employees access to insight and data they didn’t have before, while providing management with complete assurance that everyone is working off the right versions of policies, procedures and other importantdocumentation. |
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Throughput Appliance
Activplant's Throughput Appliance offers a low cost and repeatable solution for plants with low or no automation layer that desire the performance management results of Throughput Analyzer. By adding a low level automation layer, Throughput Appliance – an easily installed middle interface - bridges the gap in the automation layer making Throughput Analyzer a reality in these environments.
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Throughput Analyzer - Rate Based Edition
A proven performance management application that simplifies the complexities of high volume packaging, bottling and other continuous flow manufacturing environments, by identifying and prioritizing the chronic disruptors to product flow (the constraints). This edition was specifically designed for high volume, continuous flow manufacturers in Food & Beverage, Packaging, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Packaged Goods industries.
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The When, Why and How of ERP support for LEAN
LEAN Manufacturing is a powerful approach used by manufacturing companies to drastically improve manufacturing processes. This white paper clarifies the situations where ERP supports LEAN, the benefits of this support and why it only applies to some situations. |
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Blast Past Bottlenecks with Constraint Based Scheduling
Lumpy demand due to seasonality or business cycles. Limited capacity in part of a plant. Skilled labor shortages. These and a number of other problems can be solved with constraint-based scheduling, also referred to as finite scheduling. Learn the basics of constraint-based scheduling including optimal, predictive and interactive scheduling. |
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6 Steps To ERP Implementation Success
Implementing an enterprise application like an enterprise resources planning (ERP) contact relationship management (CRM) or enterprise asset management (EAM) is almost as complex as undertaking a civil engineering or major construction project. Here are six simple steps to take in order to manage that complexity and achieve your corporate goals. |
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Road Map To The Perfect Order - Best Practice Strategies For Success
The “perfect order” concept emerges as a measure of not only supply chain performance, but also overall order management cycle (OMC) effectiveness. However, there is much debate on what comprises a perfect order. To some extent, a perfect order may be driven by stakeholder-centricity or the ability to meet changing stakeholder expectations. |
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Throughput Analyzer - Cycle Based Edition
The Throughput Analyzer performance management application automates the identification of true chronic constraints and provides the information to improve production throughput in high volume discrete manufacturing facilities. This edition was specifically designed for manufacturers whose products are produced in a one-piece flow environment and are measured to takt time such as engines, powertrains, component parts and vehicles.
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