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Tips on Managing Your Distributors When evaluating distributors, manufacturers should look for companies that can offer specialized in-house capabilities that will add value to the overall product offering. |
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July 1, 2009
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Replacement Parts Survey: Processors Remain Cautious in an Era of Uncertainty More than a third of industry professionals surveyed for the 2009 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey say their programs have been disrupted, with potentially serious consequences down the road. |
Food Engineering
April 2, 2007
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Savvy Maintenance Strategies For food processors, a savvy plant maintenance strategy begins with hard questions based in reality. What does it cost when a part fails in your production line? How critical is it to your business? |
Food Engineering
July 18, 2006
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Standardization: The next frontier Standardized parts could lower costs and inventory requirements, but food-plant maintenance teams aren't interested in just rock-bottom options. |
Food Engineering
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Something broken this way comes An estimated 35 percent of indirect cost in a food plant is due to maintenance. Can you foresee upcoming equipment failures? Predictive and preventive maintenance software can help keep your plant running. |
Food Processing
September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Where and how does a preventive maintenance program fit in with our normal routine maintenance program? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
Food Processing
November 2007 |
Tips to avoid counterfeits With the growth of counterfeit parts, there are a number of practices that management, plant and maintenance personnel can take to avoid them. |
Food Engineering
July 1, 2005
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2005 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey: Speed It Up! Food processors speak out about the importance of faster replacement parts delivery, offering a recipe of actions that suppliers could take to make them more satisfied customers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Out-of-the-Box Customer Service In the past, customer service essentially meant companies keeping their promises to customers. A new view of customer service requires commitment and entails understanding the customer well enough to dramatically increase the customer's profitability. |
Food Engineering
July 2, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
5th Annual Replacement Parts and Components Survey: Processors Take a Cost-Driven Approach The role of purchasing managers in the spare parts and components process clearly is growing. |
Food Processing
August 2010 |
MRO Q&A: What are the do's and don'ts for food industry maintenance? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
U.S. CPSC
May 9, 2007 |
Cooper Lighting Emergency Lights Recalled, Could Fail to Illuminate in an Emergency A circuit board in the light could malfunction, preventing the lights from illuminating in the event of a power failure. |
Food Processing
August 2008
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Predictive Maintenance Environment in Food Processing Plants Provides Early Warning System Maintenance is moving from preventive to predictive mode with condition monitoring, maintenance system upgrades and the promise of easier integration. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2008
Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits. |
IndustryWeek
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Six Keys to an Effective Lubrication Program Following these steps will help drive down equipment failures. |
U.S. CPSC
August 12, 2008 |
Cooper Lighting Recalls Emergency and Exit Lights; Could Fail to Stay Illuminated in an Emergency The lights can malfunction and not stay illuminated in the event of a power failure. This could result in a failure to provide adequate lighting to guide building occupants to an exit in an emergency. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2010
John Keller |
Industry and Government Prepare Counter-Attacks Against Electronic Parts Counterfeiting Experts agree that about the only way of avoiding counterfeit parts is to purchase components only through authorized sources. |
Food Processing
October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
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Spread It Around Find the best strategies for distributing your product, and you'll rake in the profits. Advice from Wayne Willert, founder of Gutter-Bolt Inc. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2001
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Metamorphosis Of The Middleman Distributors and dealers adapt to the e-business challenge... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
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Bogus! Electronic manufacturing and consumers confront a rising tide of counterfeit electronics. Feeding this problem is the shift of manufacturing to China, the growing sophistication of technology, and the rise of the Internet as a marketplace. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
The Business Case for Better Maintenance It seems a stretch, but a plant's maintenance department can be a profit center. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2005 |
Is preventive maintenance worth it? For many businesses, a planned maintenance strategy is critical. Yet nearly 68 percent of the respondents to a survey of the food and beverage industry say they allocate less than half of their maintenance budgets for preventive activities that reduce equipment failure and plant shutdown. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
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From Inventory to Information Drug safety initiatives, technical innovation, and lean practices are changing the way pharmaceutical supply chains operate. As a result, the role distributors play within that value chain is evolving. |
Food Processing
September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why hasn't predictive maintenance developed faster in food & beverage plant operations? A look at the factors that must be present for a plant to have sufficient benefit from predictive maintenance to justify the investment in measurement equipment. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2006
Allan Whitlow |
Integrators Must Take Measures to Protect Themselves From Counterfeit Electronic Parts Counterfeit electronic parts, which have come to the forefront in the electronics manufacturing industry in recent months, are particularly vexing to high-reliability manufacturers of military and aerospace products where component failure is not an option. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
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Pass the Buck Did you know distributors can help you save cash? |
IndustryWeek
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Driving Growth By Controlling Grey Market Leakage Grey Market goods are a component of piracy that is completely within the control of manufacturers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 5, 2004
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Fixing the Healthcare Supply Chain The paradox of healthcare supply chains is that they are the home of some of the best and worst practices in supply chain management. With limited hospital budgets, supply chain inefficiencies consume resources that could be used to bring important therapies into more widespread availability. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2007
John Keller |
The Scourge of High Tech One of the worst trends to emerge in military systems design involves counterfeit electronic parts -- those that appear genuine, but which actually are substandard, altogether different, or in the worst cases, simply empty packages. |
Managed Care
February 2001
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B2B for Health 'Business to business' is where the real action is in Internet health care... |
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March 2012 |
MRO Q&A: Assigning Numbers to Maintenance What is a reasonable ratio of plant maintenance expense to plant sales output? |
The Motley Fool
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3 Obscure and Undervalued Stocks for 2009 Technology distributors have a business model that shields them from the hurt of a recession. |
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May 2009
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CMMS Software: Will Work for Food Maintenance software starts out as a generic tool; can become a critical instrument for safety and compliance throughout the plant. |
Insurance & Technology
July 29, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich Launches Emerging Tech Business Producer Site The speed at which technology businesses develop can be challenging to insurance distributors trying to understand clients' needs |
