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…” [...]
Advanced Planning and Scheduling…Can you afford to live without it?
In Today’s fast pace marketplace Manufacturer’s must consider using an APS System Many manufacturing companies have an ERP solution and believe that their software requirements are completely covered by [...]
3 Things Plastic Manufacturers Need to Have
Shrinking costs, staying competitive while providing timely delivery to customers does not have to be a complex process—but it is one that is well beyond the scope of most [...]