Production planning and control (or PPC) is defined as a work process which seeks to allocate human resources, raw materials, and equipment/machines in a way that optimizes efficiency. In layman’s…
TOWARDS INDUSTRY 4.0: CHALLENGES OF ERP SYSTEMS FOR SMEs. The transformation of today’s industrial factories into smart factories takes especially the manufacturing industry into the next level of the industrial…
Integrate your ERP system with chatbots. The majority of ERP systems are designed in such a way that they depend on recurrence of events, static rules, and structured data. Their…
Collaborative robots in manufacturing can take the mundane and stressful in stride. Excelling at dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks is what they do best. Consider cobots scaled down versions of…
Collaborative Robots Make Smart Manufacturing Accessible. Collaborative robots (cobots) are gaining traction in modern manufacturing facilities. Prices have steadily fallen into the realm of affordable for most small and medium…
Another interesting benefit of automation is the potential to interact with products directly within an ERP system. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to items that have embedded smart sensors…