How your MES can predict and prevent quality issues The benefits of making your products right the first time are clear: higher productivity, improved on-time shipment performance, combined with less rework, materials, overtime, scrap, and other costs. You have implemented consistent quality processes and applications such as enterprise resource planning and quality management systems. Still, Read More

Increasing product volume and reducing scrap to the point of achieving Zero Waste to Landfill are competing objectives for many manufacturers. For Brewer Science, a leader in innovative materials and processes for the semiconductor industry, producing high quality products and remaining sensitive to the environment is critical to our success and the success of our Read More

Description You understand the operational challenges that Engineer-to-Order products bring to your organization. You need to provide the flexibility and customization that your clients demand, but the process often results in long bid and order engineering lead times, inaccurate cost and schedule estimates, margin eroding errors, and project schedule/budget overruns. How can you deliver the Read More

The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued the DFARS 252.204.7012 compliance mandate for its supply chain around data protection of controlled unclassified info with a deadline of December 31, 2017! Join our 30 minute webinar to learn how to get into compliance. Presented by Cytellix, who will discuss: DFARS & NIST cybersecurity regulations for supply chain Read More

Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment manufacturers today must deal with: Increased production complexity due to high product variants and customized demands from customers Flexible Production Planning and Increased Configurability given the global competitive environment Adopt Industry 4.0 practices to gain competitive edge through digitalization In dealing with these new business requirements, the technological obstacles seem Read More

You work on Continuous Improvement in your Manufacturing... Is it Time for Lean Selling? As you focus on growing sales, do you find your current sales effort: Experience lots of Waste? Wasted time Wasted company resources Wasted opportunities that do not turn into revenue Have you ever done a Sales Root Cause Analysis? Why do Read More

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is here and manufacturers are quickly adopting the technology improving operations, maintenance, and productivity.  The IIot has generated mountains of data, but how can you take maximum advantage of it? The final element of bringing the IIoT to life is to integrate Augmented Reality (AR). Now every member of Read More

The growing need for connected, “smart” equipment can be a disruptive force for many manufacturers. Investments in smart equipment can supercharge your production. It is critical to your company’s long-term health to embrace these changes before your competition gets ahead of you and leaves you in their dust. Plus, your new equipment allows Predictive Maintenance Read More

How are manufacturers gaining and maintaining a digital edge? A competitive advantage doesn’t just happen in any area of business. Operationally speaking, it starts with a deliberate strategy to excel in a few targeted areas, making the necessary investments and then fully leveraging the financial or performance advantages. In partnership with OpenText, IndustryWeek set out Read More

Industry 4.0 (aka Smart Manufacturing) is all about harnessing production information to achieve increased productivity, efficiency and product quality improvements from the available manufacturing workforce and equipment. It is also about, of course, tightening and improving the horizontal flow of information from Design/Engineering, through Manufacturing and on to Operations and Maintenance in the After Market Read More

Successful operational risk management demands a clear understanding of internal company practices, policies and systems to ensure they are adequate to protect the organization from loss due to a change in market conditions or operational difficulties. Most senior leaders are very well aware of the financial challenges their companies may face, but are less familiar Read More

Developing world-class safety in organizations is a complex approach. When no one is committed to owning the process or the safety operations strategy is developed only at the corporate level, it can result in employee disconnect and limited results. Safety should be an uncompromising value, and focusing on reliable, strategic safety initiatives will help your Read More