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Inventory management key to maintaining a competitive edge

Manufacturer's Monthly

Image: /stock.adobe.com For Australia’s discrete manufacturers, inventory management is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation of production processes, maintaining product quality, and achieving sustainable growth. Efficient inventory management helps manufacturers save resources, cut costs, and avoid disruptions.

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Revving Up Discrete Manufacturing: Is Your Manufacturing Data Ready for AI?

iBASEt

The Current State of AI in Complex Discrete Manufacturing AI clearly has staying power and will continue to gain momentum as new use cases and applications are discovered. The complex discrete manufacturing industry is already making strides in AI adoption. appeared first on iBase-t.

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Bottoms-Up MES That Works

Gary Mintchell

The Pico MES no code application (a recent theme) builds on a library of tools used in discrete manufacturing. The library is a digitization of all the information relevant to the tool. That requires too much custom code (and I’d add, too many consultants). Another thing he learned from Elon—the more digitizing, the better.)

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Flexible and Affordable Purchase Options for Shop Floor Software

Fabricating & Metal Work

ShopFloorConnect is an on-premises software solution that provides timely, accurate, and unbiased data directly from the shop floor for making informed management decisions. Wintriss received a positive response when it debuted the new start-up purchase packages and options at FABTECH 2024.

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The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum Announces Certification Program

Gary Mintchell

Where I see more opportunities would be in the discrete manufacturing area where the old trend of larger and more complex systems seem to be reversing to a more manageable size for the automation with the requirement to tie the systems to information networks.

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Digital Continuity, A Driving Force in Manufacturing Productivity

iBASEt

It applies across any business activity that incorporates digital information as part of its operational or archival processes. Put simply, “Digital continuity is the ability to use your information in the way you need, for as long as you need.” Aligning this information will drive productivity throughout your organization.

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IMTS emphasizes the importance of information

Control Engineering

A key topic throughout the event, which impacts these other undercurrents in some way, is information. and the Smart Factory have put a greater emphasis on information and how it impacts a facility’s operation. Gathering all this information is only part of the picture, however. Protect the digital manufacturing supply chain.