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More than a third of the businesses using RFID are doing so to improve the cost, safety and reliability of managing work-in-process (WIP), according to a study released by the Aberdeen Group, a market ...

There is now broad consensus that data-driven decision-making is essential to success in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment. Customers’ price-consciousness, combined with demands for ...

MaintainX reports that integrating maintenance data into product design enhances reliability, reduces downtime, and speeds up ...

In 2023, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly essential to the day-to-day operations of manufacturers all over the world. Autonomous robots and machine learning-powered predictive ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...