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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...