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Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation is a Team Sport

Discover how to leverage technology to transform your manufacturing business with expert partnerships. Learn about the importance of benchmarking, core competency focus, and strategic planning for digital transformation success. Empower your team to win and accelerate productivity for the long-term.

March 21, 2023

Solving Labor Challenges with Paperless Manufacturing

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Solving Labor Challenges with Paperless Manufacturing

A new generation of employees expects the best technology wherever they go, and they want it to be easy to use, mobile, and powerful. Companies will need a modern paperless manufacturing environment if they are to compete for workers.

March 07, 2023

How to Drive a Manufacturing “Culture of Quality”

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How to Drive a Manufacturing “Culture of Quality”

Leverage digital technology that integrates and enforces quality management throughout the manufacturing process to build a culture of quality.

February 22, 2023

Digital Transformation

Include Frontline Workers in OT Purchase Decisions

The success of any technology investment depends on the support and use of the technology by staff. Your Manufacturing Execution System, Quality and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul OT investments will deliver faster payback and higher utilization when you have user buy-in.

February 07, 2023

Manufacturing Workers are Tech Workers – How to attract & retain them.

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Manufacturing Workers are Tech Workers – How to attract & retain them.

Gen Z workers insist on having the tools and technology they need to succeed. Having grown up with technology, they assume it will be available. On the plant floor, your MES is how to support them.

January 24, 2023

Unlocking Tribal Knowledge in Complex Manufacturing with an MES

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Unlocking Tribal Knowledge in Complex Manufacturing with an MES

A modern Manufacturing Execution System solution already gives you a mechanism to capture and communicate knowledge across the organization and has inherent quantification and reporting capabilities.

January 11, 2023

Smart Manufacturing – A Layered Approach to Digital Transformation

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Smart Manufacturing – A Layered Approach to Digital Transformation

Proactive manufacturing, with a layered approach, enables appropriate measures to prevent engineering issues. This increases efficiency on the shop floor – the ultimate goal of smart manufacturing.

January 03, 2023

MRO: The hidden opportunity in digital transformation

Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul

MRO: The hidden opportunity in digital transformation

Whether a service-providing organization or a manufacturer looking to service products, this Solumina MRO example is worth considering.

December 13, 2022

Why integrating MES and PLM should be at the top of your to-do list

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Why integrating MES and PLM should be at the top of your to-do list

PLM-MES integration is one of the fundamental steps on the path to smart factories, digital threads, and the Model-based Enterprise. Once MES and PLM are tightly linked, big things can happen.

December 06, 2022

Want to ensure quality manufacturing for complex discrete operations? Embed it in the process.

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Want to ensure quality manufacturing for complex discrete operations? Embed it in the process.

How can complex discrete manufacturing operations help their teams collaborate to solve quality problems quickly and methodically?

November 29, 2022

MES and the modern manufacturer: It’s about the people.

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MES and the modern manufacturer: It’s about the people.

How MES is evolving to meet the needs of the modern manufacturer - an interview with Max Eitel, Product Manager for Solumina by iBASEt.

November 22, 2022

Tricks or treats on your shop floor this Halloween?

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Tricks or treats on your shop floor this Halloween?

Your technology architecture is more than your network map. Manufacturers have invested heavily in technology over the years and realize that much of the benefit comes from being able to share information between applications and systems.

October 31, 2022

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