Driving Healthcare Home – How Hyundai Set out to Change the World
June 23, 2022
Imagine the following. You’re packing for a business trip, your flight is leaving in a couple of hours. You realize you’re nearly out of insulin to control your diabetes. Not a problem, you think. You whip out your smartphone and relay your urgent need to the online pharmacy via their app.…
Advantages of Predictive Analytics in Manufacturing
June 9, 2022
Data analytics is the practice of examining raw data to find insight and even answers to a company’s select questions. For businesses like manufacturing, it’s used to figure out key information such as why plants are breaking down or identifying trends like customer purchases during hurricane…
4 Trends in Supply Chains 2022 (And How to Prepare for Them)
April 26, 2022
Back in 2021, we wrote, A Practical Approach to Supply Chain Risk Management. In the post, we covered the risks to manufacturers’ supply chains at the time, how to create a management plan, and what to include in it. This time, we’re covering four of those risks currently trending for 2022, and how…
4 More Surprising Uses For Industrial RFID Technology
February 3, 2022
Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is the scanning of special tags with radio waves. These tags can be affixed on items from boxes to wrist bands, and can contain information like the item’s name, SKU number, to even a picture. That information is then scanned and stored by using RFID…
10 Ways to Reduce Manufacturing Overhead Costs
October 28, 2020
Manufacturers have been receiving mixed signals as of late. On the one hand, manufacturing has seen a slow rise in activity but, available talent and labor has been dwindling. On one end of the spectrum, peak season and holidays promise increased production but, on the other end, we’re already…
Why is On Demand Manufacturing Suddenly Being Talked About?
October 6, 2020
Earlier in 2020, when the COVID pandemic was still in its infancy, manufacturing experienced one of its most prolific and high-profile stories ever. In response to lightning quick reduction in supplies such as PPE and ventilators, several manufacturers answered the call by leveraging their plants…
How Can the Order to Cash Process be Improved with Industrial Computers?
September 15, 2020
Regardless of whether we’re discussing a B2B-based manufacturer or one that sells directly to consumers, the order to cash process is an essential one and one whose optimization should be prioritized. Thankfully, as complicated as the process is, because it’s so complicated and involves so many…
How Warehouses can Optimize Order Picking for Greater Productivity
December 26, 2019
With industrial computers and automation opening the floodgates for greater efficiency and optimization, warehouse managers have begun looking to integral parts of their operation to enhance for further productivity.   Order picking is one such essential part of the order fulfillment process. In…
4 Surprising Uses for Industrial RFID Technology
February 26, 2019
Have you read the glowing praises of industrial RFID and barcode technology, and wondered just exactly what the hype was for? What the applications could possibly be that would lead to such adoration? Like any tech, the promises tend to outweigh the practical uses — that’s just the downside of…
4 Ways to Maximize Your ROI Investment with Industrial Computers
November 2, 2018
The words ERP implementation might conjure nightmares for some operations managers out there. The fact is, ERP implementations are expensive and time-consuming, and in a lot of cases, they fail to produce a positive ROI. There are a lot of reasons why an ERP implementation might fail ranging from…
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