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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? 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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Supply Chain Sustainability and Direct Current Power

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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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Amazon and the Shift to AI-Driven Supply Chain Planning

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

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Industry 4.0: Building the right skills to meet the factory of the future

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It does present a training requirement, the need for new skills for industry 4.0 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. Manager and even the Smart Factory Manager. The post Industry 4.0:

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

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He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. Maximizing factory throughput is critical. We needed to model the data in a way that we can do simple searching. We spent hours and hours looking for data, whether it was for audits, compliance, or just basic troubleshooting.

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