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Attract, Retain and Motivate Employees
As labor shortages reach new heights and employee turnover as strong as ever, the manufacturing industry is facing a tough challenge: attracting and retaining top talent. The supply chain has proven to leave companies with their hands out empty and the end-consumer very similar when it comes to delivery. In 2020 & 2021, manufacturers identify…
Read More5 Steps to Turn Data Into Profits
5 Steps To Turn Data Into Profits Truth is, most companies are inundated with data from numerous sources throughout the organization. Which begs the question, is the data being used intelligently in an actionable manner that drives profits? For example, you have case weights on thousands of boxes of products produced each day, but how…
Read MoreReducing Error to Boost Efficiency
Reducing error to boost efficiency is an often overlooked strategy when considering how to get the most out of your manufacturing plant. With reducing human error, that operational goal seems a little easier to achieve. It’s not uncommon that we see many organizations simply attempting to increase utilization, capacity, or cycle times. These are effective…
Read MoreA Hidden Factory: Unlock the Power of Your Plant
What’s hiding in the Depths of Your Hidden Factory? (5-6 minute read) Breaking Down Your Hidden Factory Throughout this short journey of KPIs and unlocking your Hidden Factory, we’re going to provide tips, calculations, and next steps to unlocking your Hidden Factory to begin getting better results. Have you ever heard of OEE? Of course…
Read MoreData Silos: the Silent Killer of Insights
Data Silos: the Silent Killer of Insights A short blog on correcting and preventing silos. Have you ever wondered why you can’t seem to get the deeper level insight you’re looking for in your plant or across your plant locations? It may be caused by what are called ‘Data Silos’. What they are: Data (or…
Read MoreEmpower Your Plant with Digital Tools
Empowering plant floor employees shouldn’t have to be expressed as an important matter. Millions of dollars are invested into providing support, services, training, and many other resources for the production floor environment every year to help improve work conditions and production results; but, what if we empowered employees in a more digital way? What if…
Read MoreChoosing a Software Vendor
It’s difficult to find a vendor for anything, let alone something you have to pay for and use every day. The process is usually exhausting and many times, there is a lack of followthrough, wasting time and ultimately, money; but that doesn’t have to be. In this short article, we’ll show you a few ways…
Read MoreKPIs for OPEX
We’re all aware of the benefits Operational Excellence can provide when it is achieved. Higher yields, efficiency, and even profitability are direct effects of achieving OPEX, but how is it done exactly? It actually takes many different areas of your business to achieve, but today we are just going to talk about Key Performance Indicators…
Read MoreDoing Nothing: The Cost
Compliance, traceability, and accountability are top priorities in the ever-changing world of food & beverage, pharma, and biotech. So, what can companies do in order to evolve with the changing standards and ways of operating? First, we’ve got to admit something together; that things are changing in these industries and that doing nothing about it…
Read MoreRemote Monitoring
The manufacturing industry has long feared for this day to come, and it wasn’t expected to happen this way… For many years, the manufacturing industry as a whole has adopted some significant technology that has forced jobs to become more remote; something scary and exciting for most businesses. It’s no lie that the manufacturing arena…
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