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Reflections and Lessons From 1997

The Lean Thinker

to Rick from the factory where I had spent a week working with Mr. Shimura of Shingijutsu and Reiko, his interpreter. I was making the transition from teaching classes and running simulations to making real change in real factories (that weren’t mine!). MONDAY: 2 PERS 1 MACHINE. TODAY: 1 PERSON 2 MACHINES.

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How to secure your ERP system

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Physical security — A server in an office or a factory can be accessed, damaged or even stolen. The IT team responsible for the ERP application should also be an integral part of practice exercises for cyberattack response. The post How to secure your ERP system appeared first on SYSPRO Blog.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Decision-making goes from a highly tedious and error-prone exercise to a process that combines computational intelligence with the business knowledge needed to analyze the optimizer’s results.

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Using OEE and MOM with older manufacturing equipment

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In the first blog on streamlining manufacturing , we discussed how OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) and MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) can improve manufacturing processes. The problem is that many factories are limited in this area because they have older legacy equipment. How to instrument older plant equipment for MOM.

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How OEE and MOM can be used to streamline manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

But to understand how to do that requires information, and therefore the question is how to get accurate data to check that the plant, and the people on the shop floor, are performing? In other words, VSM was an exercise, not part of a plan for improvement with a deployment strategy. The importance of digital manufacturing.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Decision-making goes from a highly tedious and error-prone exercise to a process that combines computational intelligence with the business knowledge needed to analyze the optimizer’s results.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. “You guys are showing me how to run a business if I end up starting one.”