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September 05, 2023 | Steffen Clauß
The Challenges of End-to-End Production Planning: Integrating SAP PP/DS and REO
Optimizing production planning is crucial in manufacturing. Learn about the challenges of integrating SAP PP/DS and REO for seamless end-to-end planning.
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October 21, 2021 | Jim Connett
Manufacturing in the Cloud?
Decades of advances in security and interconnectivity may have you wondering: Is now a good time for manufacturers to move to the cloud?
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August 05, 2021 | Jim Connett
Human, Machine, or Software?
Artificial intelligence continues to press the boundaries of software capabilities. Is AI capable of advanced reasoning?
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September 16, 2020 | Axel Wogawa
Industry 4.0: Pros & Cons of Cloud Computing in Smart Manufacturing
Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in Smart Manufacturing: What advantages does it offer over conventional on-premises computing plus what are the drawbacks?
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August 04, 2020 | Jim Anderson
Structuring Successful Manufacturing Initiatives
How to build a strong foundation for successfully achieving manufacturing business initiatives.
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June 10, 2020 | Jim Connett
Business Cycles in Manufacturing: A Commentary
Take advantage of economic cycles in manufacturing, including the downturns, to improve the responsiveness and resiliency of your company.
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November 27, 2019 | Jim Connett
Process Capabilities that Save. You. Money.
Implement process capability modules to optimize the run of clean and dirty recipes on tools to avoid unnecessary preventive maintenance activities.
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July 02, 2019 | Krishnan Ramaswamy
The Fully Integrated Supply Chain – A Fast-Approaching Reality
Impressions from Hannover Messe 2019. An engineer’s review of SAP’s fully integrated, manufacturing supply chain demo and new Open Industry 4.0 alliance.
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June 19, 2019 | Manjunath Nagaraju
Application Lifecycle Management for the Digital Age
A roadmap for improving factory application maintenance and support in a way that also accelerates delivery of your manufacturing digitization objectives.
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May 29, 2019 | Dr. Lutz Muche
Research News: Production Forecasting Solutions
Promising research offers solutions for the automatic detection of bottlenecks, forecasting and prediction of dynamic WIP waves, determination of optimal scheduling of equipment-maintenance cycles and...