Beyond the Basics: What’s Next for Industry 4.0?
While the basics of Industry 4.0 may sound futuristic, it won’t be long before we see even more sweeping changes in manufacturing. When new technologies arrive on the scene, [...]
Real-Time Productivity Tracking from OEE to Time & Attendance
Don’t forget these few facts…Part 1 Accurate factory floor production reporting is becoming more and more important for many manufacturing companies for a variety of reasons. Reasons that range [...]
QAD 2018 Explore Conference
The QAD 2018 Explore Conference was another great success for FACTIVITY and the various customers and potential future customer that came by our booth to talk. On display [...]
Industry 4.0: Changing the Face of Manufacturing
Manufacturers in the age of Industry 4.0 must be smart, connected, responsive and customer centric. The factory of the future must operate flawlessly, delivering products on time with acceptable [...]
Selecting Technologies for Industry 4.0
Our recent post Getting Started with Industry 4.0 lays out a path to the future of smart and modern manufacturing. The best way to achieve your Industry 4.0 goals is [...]
Industry 4.0…what you should know while at Explore!
What is Industry 4.0? You may be hearing a lot of buzz about Industry 4.0 and wondering what all the noise is about. The concept arose from a project [...]
Getting Started with Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 encompasses so many technologies and offers so many transformational opportunities that it can be hard to know where to start. For example, McKinsey lists almost 30 [...]
What is Industry 4.0?
You may be hearing a lot of buzz about Industry 4.0 and wondering what all the noise is about. The concept arose from a project commissioned by the German [...]
Scheduling Software…How Plastics & Metal Manufacturers can make better operational decisions…faster!
“One major differentiator between Advanced Scheduling Software and using your current ERP and/or spreadsheet based scheduling system is the ability to quickly and easily provide realistic ship dates to [...]
Manufacturing Labor Time– Not what it used to be!
As recently mentioned in the NY Times Newspaper of Jan 3, 2018… “Tech has helped undercut the power of incumbent institutions — governments, political parties, the media, the patriarchy…” [...]