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

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

A meeting between two pioneers during a cocktail party in 1956 turned out to be a defining moment in the world of manufacturing. Manager and even the Smart Factory Manager. Technology meets human capability in the middle. A 2021 study conducted by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute (MI) predicts that 2.1

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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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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Colin Fox, an early consultant in the world of flow production, had led a series of study missions to Japan that engaged Boeing’s top 100 or so leaders. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. One of them was the Boeing 737 moving line.

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The Top Floor to Shop Floor Production Planning Handoff is Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. Your inventory levels in the factory are right, your routings are accurate.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The End of Made In China Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world’s factory floor. You can download the entire study and the eBook now for FREE on your kindle at Amazon here. Remember He-Man and his plastic friends?

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1940s the industrial engineers turned this craft production system into a factory system with the tasks divided between three shifts. The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. This all changed shortly after WWII. The Long Wall Method. Long Wall Mining Shift Schedule. Productivity plummeted.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets. The objective is to meet the service level goal with a network design that optimizes the costs across the manufacturing supply chain. It was predictable. PMI looked at four different solutions in late 2018.