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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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Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Bottling
The solution for bottlers that addresses the everyday challenges faced in their industry. By eliminating the waste caused by constraints, getting more units/cases out the door with fewer resources is no longer a challenge but a reality. Whether the constraint is on a 12 oz. can or a 2 liter bottle of soda, the Throughput Analyzer will account for every second of production and identify with the touch of a button whether the root cause is a changeover issue, speed loss or downtime loss. |
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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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Coca-Cola Amatil achieves substantial performance improvements with Activplant manufacturing intelligence solution.
Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) embarked on a national Manufacturing Excellence program based around a uniform means of performance measurement across all plants with a particular focus on high-speed packaging lines. It was soon discovered that CCA lacked fundamentatl production performance data to drive process improvement. An automated data collection and reporting system to provide this visibility was required. Activplant delivers the inforamtion needed to make critical operational decisions. |
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Catania-Spagna Earns “Preferred Supplier” Status with RedTail’s On-Demand Solution for EDI and GDS
Catania-Spagna Corporation (CSC) needed to find an easy way to meet its trading partners’ requirements for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Global Data Synchronization (GDS). The grocery and food industries aggressively leverage these business processes to reduce supply chain costs where margins are razor thin to begin with. They seek and value suppliers who can comply with these practices. |
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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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7 Capabilities Your Software Vendor Should Offer to Support your Business Operations in China
China today represents a large market of opportunity for Process Manufacturers. Many North American companies either have already or are considering starting operations in China to serve this fast growing market. Process Manufacturers who make Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Beverages, Steel and Natural Products have unique requirements including inventory handling, lot tracking, recipe management and manufacturing planning among others. |
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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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