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

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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? Smaller manufacturers, for example, have to consider the costs as challenges can become magnified as a business expands. A smarter supply chain with smart factory.

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How manufacturers can enable innovation on the factory floor

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A simple example of this would entail considering inventory and stock on hand (internal data) along with changes in weather patterns due to climate change (external data), and how both factors affect a factory’s ability to deliver on its orders. Increased safety and less on the job injuries in the warehouse and on the factory floor.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

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The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. So here goes – read on for a greater understanding of these concepts and the role they play in your journey to a smart factory.

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What is Internal Logistics: Importance, Elements and Examples

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What is Internal Logistics: Importance, Elements and Examples | Image Source: Google Images. For example, the operations manager. This includes, for example, everything related to warehouse and logistics. Examples of internal and external logistics. Example of external logistics. What is internal logistics?

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ERP ROI for the manufacturing and distribution CEO

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Here are examples of the tangible return-on-investment (ROI) ERP can bring to your business: Maintain competitive advantage with ERP. During the pandemic ERP kept industries in operation with its ability to sustain business operations through remote access to data, automated reporting, electronic data exchange, and real-time factory controls.

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What are the true causes of ongoing supply chain disruptions?

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There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast. The AI, for example, should flag any orders that are way beyond the normal demands. .