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The smart factory Part 4: What skills do manufacturers and distributors need in the factory of the future?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As manufacturers and distributors inject their operations with innovative technologies in an effort to transform them into smart factories, a shift in how those factories are staffed has emerged. Reskilling and attracting a smart factory workforce. As factories add smarter tech, they’ll need people to manage it.

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The role of ERP in the smart factory

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How can a manufacturing business today become an intelligent and automated ecosystem – a smart factory that drives productivity, performance, and profitability? For the manufacturing business as they transform, the value of ERP begins with: Bespoke solutions for smart factory. A smarter supply chain with smart factory.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. These terms are often used interchangeably, and yet understanding the difference is critical in the move toward smart factories powered by digital technologies.

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Using an ERP system to provide data for decision-making in manufacturing

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Manufacturers increasingly turning to data and analytics, from an ERP system, to support business initiatives. Data is after all the fuel that runs the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In most cases, there has been a succession of tools that worked in some cases but were not broadly successful. Challenges to using data.

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The pros and cons of low code tools for manufacturers

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Low-code tools give an easy-to-use support for building software applications, eliminating the need for in-house coding specialists. Therefore, embracing tools that assist organizations create solutions faster like low code should be a consideration to manufacturers. What is low code development? The cons of low code. Low code and ERP.

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eBook: Data Driven Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

Logistics Business magazine, together with the Information Factory, have produced a 7 page digital magazine on data in transport logistics. Editor Peter MacLeod talks to iFactory CEO Robert Jordan to understand how transport businesses can drive up profitability by adopting a data-driven approach. Read the free eBook here.

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The Connected Shop Floor and help from an ERP system

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can improve the way the factory shop floor works and manufacturers now have all the tools they need to operate a connected shop floor. will not only change the production of goods and services across Asia, but also the organization of work in factories. and the Smart Factory The smart factory is an environment, enabled by IR4.0