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Solving the Downtime Dilemma: 5 Reasons to Look Beyond Your Top 10 Downtime List (Activplant White Paper)
This white paper challenges the viewpoint of focusing only on downtime. It illuminates other causes which can negatively impact plant performance. It uses examples to show how concentrating solely on downtime can be misleading and cause manufacturers to waste resources needlessly by fixing the wrong problems.
Finally, the paper proposes an alternate approach – throughput analysis – as a more modern and effective method for acquiring objective data about the causes... |
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The OEE Deficit: Why it can't deliver the results you require (Activplant Whitepaper)
In this body of work an evolution in thinking is introduced: the most efficient way to increase productivity is to focus on product flow through the process. The paper challenges the status quo by introducing the notion that not all performance metrics are created equally. While OEE is an accepted standard of measurement, it doesn't go beyond data collection. Instead, plant management needs to understand the meaning behind the data so that better business decisions can be made for the enterprise |
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Do More with Less: The 5 Strategies Used by Successful SMB Manufacturers
A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff.
Manufacturers can position themselves for more predictable success and business growth, without increasing staff by considering 5 strategic planning guidelines.
This Guide goes beyond theory to include Best Practices from actual SMB Manufacturing companies who've made it work.
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Mitigating Supply Chain Risk
As businesses become increasingly reliant on outsourcing and a global supply chain to remain competitive, managing risk within this supply network is a growing strategic imperative.
This whitepaper addresses how manufacturers can work collaboratively with their suppliers to prevent supply chain quality issues from occurring. It features a case study that demonstrates how one manufacturer is viewing real-time, live quality data from its global supply network. |
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What consumers want in their shopping experience
Sterling Commerce conducted an online survey of 5,000 consumers to understand consumer preferences and attitudes when shopping online and in traditional retail channels. There were some surprising results. The responses provide tremendous insight into the consumer’s expectations for selling and fulfillment. |
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Throughput Appliance
Activplant's Throughput Appliance offers a low cost and repeatable solution for plants with low or no automation layer that desire the performance management results of Throughput Analyzer. By adding a low level automation layer, Throughput Appliance – an easily installed middle interface - bridges the gap in the automation layer making Throughput Analyzer a reality in these environments.
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Throughput Analyzer - Rate Based Edition
A proven performance management application that simplifies the complexities of high volume packaging, bottling and other continuous flow manufacturing environments, by identifying and prioritizing the chronic disruptors to product flow (the constraints). This edition was specifically designed for high volume, continuous flow manufacturers in Food & Beverage, Packaging, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Packaged Goods industries.
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Road Map To The Perfect Order - Best Practice Strategies For Success
The “perfect order” concept emerges as a measure of not only supply chain performance, but also overall order management cycle (OMC) effectiveness. However, there is much debate on what comprises a perfect order. To some extent, a perfect order may be driven by stakeholder-centricity or the ability to meet changing stakeholder expectations. |
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Analyze causes for downtime and rejects
Progressive companies today need to better understand downtime and reject causes to improve their manufacturing performance. Automated tracking of this information will increase your productivity and quality. ProductionACE™ software provides you with real time and historical information allowing management to perform effective root cause analysis. |
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Manufacturing data collection for ERP, MES, CMMS systems
Manufacturers need information about inventory availability, machine uptime and down time, product cycle times, yield, waste, WIP and lot tracking and genealogy. They need real-time information management tools for continuous improvement and decision support. The driving premise behind Six Sigma, ISO9000, Lean/Agile Manufacturing is collection of accurate data and its subsequent analysis to determine root causes, process bottlenecks and inefficiencies. |
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CRM: The Essential Guide - The Five Principles for CRM Success
Today's customers are radically transforming the way companies in every industry are doing business. And many companies are successfully responding with CRM. This paper provides insight to help you take a more customer-centric view of your business. |
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Throughput Analyzer - Rate Based Edition
A proven performance management application that simplifies the complexities of high volume packaging, bottling and other continuous flow manufacturing environments, by identifying and prioritizing the chronic disruptors to product flow (the constraints). This edition was specifically designed for high volume, continuous flow manufacturers in Food & Beverage, Packaging, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Packaged Goods industries.
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How to Ensure That Your Employees Will Want to Use CRM
The decision to go with a CRM solution built to address the needs of information workers is a smart and valuable investment that recognizes the need to help employees work effectively with the deluge of data available to them in today’s connected, always-on, real-time workplace. In this paper, learn how with the right CRM solution, information workers can increase productivity, improve customer service, and boost collaboration, while the business simplifies complex processes, increases sales... |
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The Executive Guide to CRM Architecture: Why CRM Flexibility Will Impact Your Success
Most businesses today are under increasing pressure to respond to change expeditiously—to adapt to the ongoing needs and demands of their customers, the changing competitive landscape, and the evolution of the marketplace. An organization’s CRM system can either effectively support or hinder their business agility and capacity to respond to change, affecting overall corporate performance and customer satisfaction. This white paper explains the importance of flexible software architecture and... |
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The CRM Journey: From Productivity to Profit
In this business paper, you will read how companies across
a vast selection of industries are using customer relationship management to converge people, processes and products more efficiently. This convergence makes it easier and more convenient for prospects, customers and partners to do business. And with meaningful insight on what these constituents want, companies make smarter business decisions that improve the trajectory of their revenues, margins and customer loyalty. |
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