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Enhancing manufacturing with ERP: growth and efficiency unleashed

Manufacturer's Monthly

Unleashing Growth and Efficiency In manufacturing, the spotlight often shines brightly on the gears of production and the assembly lines that churn out high-quality goods.

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What does it take to truly achieve smart manufacturing in Asia Pacific?

AU Manufacturing

Think of a car factory, where the general assembly line has no visibility of the welding station that comes before it. In most cases, human operators are required to monitor and manage the programming and physical operations of each equipment due to a lack of common standards across the machines.

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Navigating Production Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) systems provide data-driven insights for better decision-making in production planning and supply chain management. The objective here is to meet customer demand while avoiding overstocking or understocking issues.

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Benefits of integrating a MES system with SCADA

Control Engineering

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are three of the most important levels of the manufacturing process. SCADA is used for automation on the plant floor and ERP automates many tasks at the office level.

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Four manufacturing applications that benefit from under-rider AMRs

Control Engineering

An under-rider AMR, which is designed to pick payloads from the bottom, can be valuable in palletizing, intralogistics, packaging and assembly lines, which often have a lot of moving parts and cannot afford downtime. Some AMRs can interface with other equipment like conveyor systems or collaborative robots (cobots).

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What Is Scientific Maintenance? Part 1

Mold Making Technology

Level 4: CMMS and ERP (Local and Global) Many companies are moving to computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) that centralizes maintenance information. CMMS, unlike the more considerable enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, lean towards a focus of asset availability and uptime.

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Figure AI unveils BotQ high-volume humanoid manufacturing facility

Robotics Business Review

It said it also spent the past six months creating a foundation to support volume manufacturing with software including manufacturing execution system (MES), product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and warehouse management system (WMS).