Tag: shop floor

Wearables are redeeming themselves by embracing a more service-oriented strategy that seeks to deliver manufacturing intelligence from the factory floor to the top floor.

The study defines distributed manufacturing as the continual strategy to replace as much of the material supply chain as possible with digital information.

Gartner's 2015 announcement of the top global supply chain leaders reveals a striking number of complex manufacturers included in its supply chain top 25, and notes the wide scope of their business models.

Sure, you have a lean shop and your personnel can quickly access their tools, but after that shop is lean and they are still spending time not working on product, then you are suffering from one of the top five killers of cycle time.

Many companies spend a small fortune and years of effort implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system only to find themselves still struggling to manage their manufacturing operations.