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(Southworth Products: Portland, ME) -- The performance requirements of lift tables in a production process are far greater than those of stand-alone lifts. To ensure maximum reliability and uptime in these production environments, Southworth has introduced a production-ready package for many of its…
(Rockwell: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation Inc. has announced the results of its ninth annual “State of Smart Manufacturing Report: CPG Edition.” The global study encompasses the responses of 158 leaders from consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers, including home and personal care, as well…
(HICX: London) -- HICX is announcing its Voice of the Supplier Survey 2024. The new survey builds on its 2021 predecessor, which revealed that some of the world’s biggest businesses are making it hard for suppliers to do their best work. Keen to learn the state of affairs today, HICX set out to…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata and Eurostep have announced the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT 2024 EMEA conference, scheduled to take place at the Lindholmen Conference Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, Oct. 23–24, 2024.
The globally recognized PLM-focused event, themed “Value Drivers for…
(FABTECH: Orlando, FL) -- North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing event, FABTECH 2024, is making its first visit to Orlando, Florida, as it kicks off its three-day run at the Orange County Convention Center in one of America’s fastest growing manufacturing centers…
(Dürr: Southfield, MI) -- Paint shops must become “greener” to help vehicle manufacturers feel certain about meeting their ambitious climate targets.
Assessing a technology’s sustainability is a complex task. In a comprehensive life cycle analysis, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (…
(GoFormz: San Diego) -- In the realm of manufacturing, efficiency is paramount. Every minute of downtime, every unexpected equipment failure, and every inefficiency in the production process can translate to lost revenue and decreased productivity. However, in recent years, the advent of predictive…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, will conduct a free, one-hour educational webinar, “2024 PLM Market Update,” Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 11 a.m. Eastern.
The PLM economy, CIMdata’s term for the global ecosystem of software and…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata Inc., a leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM (product life cycle management) and the digital transformation it enables, has announced it will offer its industry-standard PLM certificate program in Amsterdam, Netherlands, June…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata Inc., a leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announced that its Aerospace & Defense Practice Leader, James Roche, will be featured as a speaker at the upcoming Digital Engineering Conference (DICE) in Idaho Falls, Idaho, April…
(AMT: Orion, MI) – Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a North American leader in automation engineering that specializes in advanced material handling, system integration, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for warehousing and logistics, has launched the ROBiN Robotic Induction System, a…
(Hexagon: Cobham, England) -- Manufacturers that fail to get their data in order risk being left behind their rivals, a new report from Hexagon reveals. The global survey of more than 500 manufacturing leaders, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Hexagon, found that 98% of…
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex announces its latest webinar, “Integrating VDA 6.3 and IATF 16949 Internal Audits.”
Date and time: Feb. 8, 2024, 11:00 a.m. Eastern.
Speakers: Roy Gray
Organizations certified to IATF 16949 are required to perform regular internal audits, which include system,…
(The ROI Alliance: Denver) -- In the dynamic landscape of modern business, data-driven decision-making is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. Author Steven Ouellette presents his latest contribution, Data-Driven Leadership: Empowering Managers with Statistical Insights, a game-changing guide…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Small and medium-sized manufacturers know that employees are their most important asset. Without their commitment, no company can succeed. Mayville Engineering Company (MEC) recognizes this.
According to MEC’s executive vice president of fabrication operations, David…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Small and medium-sized manufacturers know that employees are their most important asset. Without their commitment, no company can succeed. Mayville Engineering Company (MEC) recognizes this.
According to MEC’s executive vice president of fabrication operations, David…
(Mistakesbook.com: Colleyville, TX) -- Mistakes are often seen as roadblocks to success. But what if they were actually the stepping stones to growth and innovation? Mark Graban, award-winning author and consultant, tackles this paradigm in his latest book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a…
(RTS Consulting: Trumbull, CT) -- Manufacturing is a complex, dynamic, variable, and competitive business. A manufacturing execution solution (MES) acts as a real-time integration system between enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing operations. Today, connecting people, things, and…
(ISACA: Schaumburg, IL) -- In a tightening economic market, addressing enterprise performance can help organizations better weather challenges by reducing costs, creating efficiencies, and coming in on schedule while improving overall quality.
ISACA’s Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- The newly released book Minitab and Lean Six Sigma, by Forrest W. Breyfogle III, illustrates how to use Minitab statistical software using an integrated enterprise excellence DMAIC road map to ensure that your business metrics, goal-setting practices, and process-…
(Key Technology: Walla Walla, WA) -- Mariani has led the dried fruit industry for 115 years by focusing on product quality along with production efficiency. Last year, the company decided to integrate grading and sorting on one prune-processing line at its Marysville, California, facility and began…
(LMA Consulting Group: Claremont, CA) -- As supply chains grapple with demand fluctuation, supplier challenges, stagflation, and volatility in the economy, Lisa Anderson—manufacturing and supply chain expert—sees inventory tightening.
Also the president of LMA Consulting Group, Anderson says, “The…
(ProShop: Bellingham, WA) -- The ProShop Secure Access File Ecosystem (SAFE) from ProShop ERP will be a secure, innovative, cloud-based ERP file-management system that enables companies to achieve multidimensional, roll- and user-based data security compliance to multiple standards such as NIST 800…
(IMEC: Dixon, IL) -- Bonnell Industries has been a family-owned, industry leader in the truck equipment industry in Northern Illinois for decades but struggled to embrace the concept of lean manufacturing. The team mostly operated under “we do it this way because it’s what we know.”
It wasn’t until…
(U.S. Department of Commerce: Washington, D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has launched a Job Quality Toolkit, providing strategies and actions to help small-and-medium-sized organizations recruit and retain a high-performing workforce. The toolkit also includes eight case studies of…