The Indian economy seems to be looking up, says the new president of the Automation Industry Association of India, auguring well for automation suppliers in the country.
SAP’s Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence technology for shop floor-to-top floor connection is gaining more visibility, as evidenced at this week’s SAP Sapphire customer conference.
This column has previously discussed the underlying causes of the credit squeeze, as well as automation industry performance; equally relevant, however, is the impact on individual small business owne
Gartner Inc., the Stamford, Conn., market research firm, has identified the top 10 technologies and trends that it says will be strategic for most organizations.
In order to improve your manufacturing performance, you should
put in a manufacturing execution system (MES) system and integrate to
your enterprise resource planning (ERP)—right?
In order to reach their maximum potential, manufacturing companies
must be efficient at coordinating and controlling personnel, materials
and equipment across different operations and control syst
“OEE is one of the most recognized KPIs (key performance indicators), if not the most recognized,” observes Craig Resnick, a research director at ARC Advisory Group Inc., in Dedham, Mass.
We keep hearing that all you need to do to retain younger employees is
give them more money, and that older employees are easy to retain
because they have everything they want.