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High-Tech's Role in Lean Technology isn't a panacea for plant-floor problems but it can help manufacturers take lean to the next level.   |
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August 17, 2011 |
Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy in Real Time Mobile technologies are helping manufacturers innovate and manage today's challenges while setting the stage for ongoing improvements in customer engagement, profitability and cost efficiency in the years to come. |
IndustryWeek
June 17, 2009
Glenn Nowak |
ERP For Me Industry-specific manufacturers need industry-specific enterprise resource planning systems. |
IndustryWeek
October 20, 2010 |
Hard Choices For Software Spending The quest for cost reduction, profitability and customer fulfillment are driving manufacturers' enterprise software purchases. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2002
Jill Jusko |
Procurement -- Not All Dollars And Cents Despite the downswing in the economy, manufacturers continue to strive for collaborative procurement partnerships... |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Sources of Strength With globalization forces transforming their businesses, manufacturers are creating more powerful sourcing strategies to control costs throughout the supply chain. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2006
Doug Bartholomew |
Where's the Magic? Is Manufacturing Software Delivering Results? Support for lean, improved visibility into operations drive in vestment in plant-floor technology. |
IndustryWeek
June 22, 2011 |
Value Stream Segmentation Focuses on Customer Needs By analyzing and segmenting market requirements, a business that is truly demand driven will optimize individual value streams to match customers' unique needs. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2006
Tonya Vinas |
Census Of Manufacturers: Shying Away From Spending U.S. manufacturers know they need to invest in IT - and some even plan for it - but research shows fewer actually are buying. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Keep the Customer Satisfied Manufacturing is in the throes of a massive shift from a production-centric to customer-centric business model, which offers a way to react more quickly to demand volatility. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Supply Chain Solutions A quick round-up of the latest supply chain technology offerings. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2007 |
Where's my Supply Chain? To succeed, food supply chains need to better integrate their disparate information and make it available to those who need it. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2005
Tonya Vinas |
IW Value-Chain Survey: A Map Of The World A 2005 Value-Chain Survey sets benchmarks for global manufacturers in procurement, new product development, supply-chain planning and logistics. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2006
Jonathan Katz |
Census Of Manufacturers -- Drifting Apart Manufacturers are moving farther away from their partners and, in the process, becoming less integrated. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Supply Chain Solutions A roundup of the latest supply chain technology applications for the manufacturing industries. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2006
Doug Bartholomew |
Manufacturers Find Business Intelligence Elusive Real-time data is the key to greater operations visibility. |
IndustryWeek
October 20, 2010 |
Getting Back to Capacity Options for manufacturers when slow demand cuts into capacity utilization. |
IndustryWeek
September 22, 2010 |
Portrait of Supplier Quality Management An epidemic of product recalls points to a need for more visibility into the supply chain. |
IndustryWeek
October 21, 2009
David Blanchard |
Portrait of a Sustainable Supply Chain Best-in-class manufacturers are enjoying a significant reduction in energy consumption. |
IndustryWeek
July 21, 2010 |
Offshoring May Have Extended the Recession Companies with far-flung supply chains tended to react slower to the global recession. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2004
Doug Bartholomew |
The Juice Flows Again Survey shows IT spending by manufacturing companies will expand this year as prices fall, and companies dust off shelved plans. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
Getting More from MRO Knowing the capabilities of maintenance, repair, and operations suppliers can help manufacturers keep costs down. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
David Blanchard |
Just In Time -- Lean You Can Believe In The bad news just keeps on coming for manufacturers, but don't give up on continuous improvement. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2005
David Drickhamer |
House of Cards Just-in-time deliveries, lean inventories and tight relationships with key vendors. The quest to minimize supply-chain costs has maximized vulnerability. Have manufacturers gone too far? |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Average Isn't Good Enough Simply stated, manufacturers that aren't continually improving are losing ground. VIBCO Vibrators has embraced the principles of lean to assure it remains in the game, not behind the pack. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2004
George Taninecz |
Partially Made In China Most U.S. industries are making China a cog in their supply chain -- even while many manufacturers in those sectors are losing sales and profits to the Chinese. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2008 |
New ERP Solutions Hit the Market A look at some new IT solutions for manufacturers. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Just-In-Time Remains Justifiable Worried about how bird flu, hurricanes or civil unrest could impact a lean supply chain? Despite such inherent risks, the benefits of just-in-time manufacturing may still be too much to pass up. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Building A Bridge To ERP Manufacturing execution systems provide for lower-stress operations-level data collection. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2004
David Drickhamer |
Manufacturers Like Us When asked to identify the focus of their market strategy, Chinese manufacturers listed "high quality" first, followed by innovation, service and support, and low cost. For U.S. manufacturers, innovation straggled in a distant seventh. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2002
Jill Jusko |
The Promise Remains The consumer packaged goods value chain inches toward b2b e-commerce, but trading partners remain committed... |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2001
David Drickhamer |
Reality Check IW's Fifth Annual Census of Manufacturers provides hard data on the current state of U.S. manufacturing... |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2006
Patricia Panchak |
Editor's Page -- Collaboration Is Key To Global Success The shift toward less integration among manufacturers and their suppliers and customers needs to be reversed. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Forecasting: Strategic Inventory Management Efficient inventory management could provide a competitive advantage. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Outsoucing: Supply-Chain Stretch With a little help from vendor partners, manufacturers meet growing value-chain challenges. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009
Josh Cable |
What You Can't See Can Hurt You The collapse of the economy - and many manufacturers' key suppliers - underscores the need for improved supply chain visibility. |
IndustryWeek
November 18, 2009
Steve Minter |
Supply Chain Risks Material costs, supplier stability cited by manufacturers. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Procurement: Heightened Visibility Spend analysis opens the door to successful sourcing strategies. |
IndustryWeek
September 16, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Buried Under Inventory The economic downturn of 2009 should change some manufacturers' approach to inventory management. |
IndustryWeek
October 20, 2010 |
Five Plant Capacity Lessons Learned Many companies are growing back volume without adding employees. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2002
David Drickhamer |
Aim High Not to confuse effort with results, but at the most basic level, North America's best manufacturers are simply doing more. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Eric Newmark |
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. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Meeting of the Minds: Where Process and Discrete Manufacturing Converge When it comes to continuous improvement, discrete and process manufacturers may have more in common than they think. A close look at the two industries shows they have opportunities to learn from each other. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2004
David Drickhamer |
Lean Accounting: Novel Number Crunching A few brave finance and accounting managers are changing how they track costs to support lean manufacturing and improve decision making. |
IndustryWeek
July 21, 2010 |
The Inside Story on Mobility Manufacturers are reaping benefits throughout their operations as they tap into the power of mobile devices and applications. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2006
Jonathan Katz |
Operations Intelligence: A Loose Link Too few manufacturers are tying operations to their financials. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2006
Jonathan Katz |
A Balanced Approach Manufacturers may find success with a mix of domestic and offshore suppliers. |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Portrait of Supply Chain Visibility Before you can reduce your inventory levels, you need visibility throughout your supply chain. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
Are Your Prices Right? Adjusting pricing strategies could help manufacturers survive the economic crisis. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Brad Kenney |
10 Reasons to Adopt RFID A quick overview of the answer to the question, "What's in RFID for me?" |
