SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Manual production lines are switching to automated assemblies and valuable data is being used to discover actionable insights into manufacturing operations. IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. What does the smart factory mean for business? A connected and flexible digital shop floor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This means making factories smarter for the future. Here’s a look into the smart factory and the steps to start the path to one taking advantage of the benefits technology can offer. What is the smart factory? How to create a smart factory. Where does your factory need to make improvements?

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

Why Modern Data Warehouses Are No Longer Optional A centralized data warehouse is becoming an essential solution for businesses looking to scale efficiently and optimize operations. It’s no longer just a “nice to have,” but a critical repository for processing vast amounts of business data.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A practical way that manufacturers can do so is firstly through using data in more comprehensive ways and secondly by embracing digitization to optimize their operations for the future. Optimizing the use of data for manufacturers. Obstacles on the data journey for manufacturers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Manual production lines are switching to automated assemblies and valuable data is being used to discover actionable insights into manufacturing operations. IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. What does the smart factory mean for business? A connected and flexible digital shop floor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2021

An onslaught of economic reports on Tuesday added to evidence of a U.S. recovery in full swing, yet one experiencing growing pains.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 2, 2023

Smart factories are growing in prominence as continued supply chain disruptions and pressures from the 4 th Industrial Revolution make embracing technology a necessity for manufacturers. This blog will look closely at the 6 most pressing challenges posed by smart factories and how an ERP system can help you overcome them.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 7, 2022

Machine downtime is an issue that constantly plagues operations, leading to frustrated workers and a negative impact on the business’s bottom line.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

The combination of SAP agent technologies and Databricks data fabric solution, sets the stage for end-to-end enterprise orchestration. Databricks offers a Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks type of solution is increasingly being called a data fabric or a data platform built on data fabric principles.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 25, 2025

MES vs MOM The term MES (Manufacturing Execution System) was first used by analysts in the 1990s to describe a category of software that defined a system that tracks and monitors the production of manufactured goods on a factory floor. Using these two terms gets some people confused. What is an MES?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 3, 2023

The area of AI that manufacturers need to explore to drive their factories into the future is machine learning (ML). What is Machine Learning ML is the computing engine behind AI and gives computers the ability to make sense of, and learn, from data to perform specific tasks without manual interference. The Industry 4.0

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Sam is the Founder and CEO of Kargo , a San Francisco tech firm that is on a mission to make factory operations as intuitive and responsive as reading Google Maps. In October 2019, Sam founded Kargo with a vision to build the universal data layer between the physical world of freight and the digital ecosystem that manages it.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

Of course, robotics does not tell the full story, as the world of manufacturing has evolved even further over the last few decades, with the rise of data and smart, autonomous systems. According to Indeed.com , that broad skills set should include digital fluency, big data analytics and even knowledge around technologies such as ERP.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. Challenges to using data. Many manufacturers are data-rich but when it comes to using it they are insight-poor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 13, 2025

Factories have changed hugely in the past 50 years. The smart factory The smart factory represents a transformational change from traditional practices to a connected and flexible system. The smart factory The smart factory represents a transformational change from traditional practices to a connected and flexible system.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Nulogy, a provider of manufacturing supply chain solutions, has announced its strategic acquisition of Mingo Smart Factory, a leader in manufacturing productivity technology. Our combined capabilities will provide external manufacturing supply chains with a premier platform purpose-built for their success.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Traditional supply chain planning, which relies on historical data and reactive adjustments, is no longer adequate for managing these challenges. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 17, 2025

According to data from the United Nations, there are an estimated 152 million children between 5 and 17 years old engaged in child labor globally.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 17, 2025

According to data from the United Nations, there are an estimated 152 million children between 5 and 17 years old engaged in child labor globally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

Data centers, electric vehicle charging, and heat pumps are the major new loads for the power grid with new innovations in DC power networks. And warehouses and factories increasingly utilize solar panels. Warehouses and factories can integrate solar panels and wind turbines to lower energy costs and carbon footprints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In short, Apple plans to commit $500 billion in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new employees, and expand to their additional 24 factories producing silicon for Apple products. Infrastructure Upgrades Apples plan to upgrade and expand its infrastructure includes significant investments in data centers and other facilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Maximizing factory throughput is critical. For example, if an asset issue was detected, solving that issue could involve multiple applications used by multiple people, seeing different information, entering different data, bouncing emails and texts back and forth, and moving information from one place to another. Data does not move.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Factories serve local markets. We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. The sales team can go have those conversations, with real-time lead times and even the factory the product will ship from, with customers.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Factory fires were the most frequent event type in the first half of 2018. In addition to natural disasters, factory fires continued to be a significant threat to supply chains. . Factory fires were the most frequent event type in the first half of 2018. . Printer-friendly version.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Due to the previous surge of China as the world’s factory over the last two decades, much of the global carriers’ business has revolved around transporting cargo between the U.S. And that’s why it’s important for carriers to apply data and enable predictive freight rating through these five requirements. Download the White Paper.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 6, 2021

in which factories are digitally transformed, manual processes are replaced with automated systems, and factories and supply chains are smarter. The digital factory. Manufacturers thriving on data. Digital factory. Leveraging the data ocean. It is not enough, though, just to collect data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SCCN solutions allow trading partners to collaborate across defined trading partner processes based on a common data model. The structured message sets can connect OEMs, component suppliers, factory operators, and maintenance services providers. SAP’s Business Network is a supply chain collaboration network.

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Logistics Management

AUGUST 23, 2021

According to data released by Resilinc, a global leader in the supply chain risk monitoring space, human-caused supply chain disruptions are rising overall, with the amount of factory fires up 150% (when comparing the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2020).

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 2, 2024

Machine learning (ML): Using algorithms and data to detect patterns without being explicitly programmed to do so automatically. ML and DL are mainly used in data analysis, classification, clustering, and ranking. GenAI systems are trained on massive amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like language.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 14, 2023

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

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2021

Factories do not have to be huge and polluting. Small factory trend or in-door farming. Analyzing data. It’s sometimes difficult to open up a facility in the states, and that’s why it’s opened up somewhere else. Finding ways to be profitable without having the move away from the states. Decentralized lands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

The factory models can include how long it takes to set up a machine, how many units per hour can be made by the machine, how long routine maintenance takes, how many workers are needed, and the hours the plant works, among others. Machine learning is particularly effective when it also uses external downstream data.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new report from shipping technology firm Ocean Insights warns that a breakdown in intermodal connectivity between factories and ports could worsen global supply chain woes. These conditions will choke factory-port connectivity starting in about two weeks, with inventory backups lasting for months.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 18, 2024

SICK UK unveiled its trailblazing SICK Augmented Reality Assistant (SARA) at Smart Factory Expo 2024 in Birmingham. The intuitive augmented reality app provides data visualization and error analysis by merging machine, sensor and diagnostic information with the real environment using technology most people carry in their pocket.

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