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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 smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

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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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

For example, manufacturing output has been expected to increase by 2.4 Another reason for increased output is the changes in manufacturing factories and their companies. Technology is advancing, becoming more accessible, making these factories and companies more efficient and able to produce more with fewer people. Industry 4.0

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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

With tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming more accessible, companies should be able to become more efficient and able to produce more with fewer people. According to a study by the Manufacturing Institute, less than 30 percent of manufacturing workers are women. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Case Study: Advanced Planning & Scheduling at Leuze Electronic

Logistics Business Magazine

Leuze electronic no longer optimizes its purchasing and production decisions with ERP as in the past, but on the basis of the Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) tool DISKOVER from SCT. With Leuze already having decided to switch over to SAP at its company headquarters, they could certainly have used the SAP planning tool.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. This all changed shortly after WWII.

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RFID Case Study: Can a Supply Chain be Digitised?

Logistics Business Magazine

The aim was to define the factory of the future and to implement its products in the digitised factory. Reliability was to be created through a more intelligent supply chain with new tools and valid real-time insights. The post RFID Case Study: Can a Supply Chain be Digitised? 1] Radio-frequency identification.