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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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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. Technology has also resulted in the rise of the augmentation of human ability.

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Exiger Has Taken the Supply Chain Risk Market by Storm

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Mr. Daniels reports they have 870 employees, so based on a market study recently completed by ARC, this claim is credible. Then the solution maps any kind of event that could keep any one of those parts from arriving at a factory on time.

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The Top Floor to Shop Floor Production Planning Handoff is Hard

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The problem was that when the planning solution spit out recommendations, and someone in sourcing or someone on the factory floor looked at those recommendations, they just did not believe them. Your inventory levels in the factory are right, your routings are accurate. But supply chain planning technology is getting better.

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Delivering a smarter factory

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Magna Steyr’s vehicle assembly plant in the Austrian city of Graz is not a typical automotive factory; the site, which in 2018 brought its cumulative total production tally to 3.5m has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’. vehicles, produces vehicles under contract for OEMs such as Daimler, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

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Based on ARC Advisory Group’s recently released study of the market, this puts them in the top 5. Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. How did the company grow so fast?

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Philip Morris International’s Pivot to Smoke-Free Products Complicates their Supply Chain

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At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets. They gave River Logic cost, lead time, and other data on five factories, and requested they built a validated network model as soon as possible. It was predictable.