Implementing Industry 4.0 technology doesn't come cheap, but is it worth it in the long run?
Can a smarter supply chain powered by advanced analytics help manufacturers grow their businesses? In the Industry 4.0 era the answer is a resounding yes.
The manufacturing sector weathers upheavals and changing market conditions constantly, here are our top 5 challenges you need to be ready for in 2019.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is here, are you ready to integrate this exciting emerging technology into your supply chain?
Reference sequencing can help modern manufacturers to reduce buffer stock and improve agility--provided they can attain a high level of visibility first.
Increases in distributed manufacturing, AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics will bring changes to global manufacturing in the coming years.
sales and operations (S&OP) planners can better understand their risk levels by employing supply chain integration and advanced analytics workflows.
In recent years, real-time information has become a key value-added proposition for bolstering efficiency and decreasing waste in modern supply chains. Is this technology being utilized to its maximum effect, or are there still new use-cases for real-time information?
How do we reconcile the difficulty of scheduling production in a job shop with the obvious value that it presents for many businesses, and what can that tell us about the future of job shop scheduling?
Because Industry 4.0 relies so heavily on machine-to-machine communication (with an eye towards autonomous machine decision making), there is a high standard for the necessary level of digitization.
On seasonality in modern manufacturing, rogue seasonality, and advanced analytics
Big Data is a core driver in helping today's manufacturing companies increase the efficiency of their planning and production programs.
As artificial intelligence becomes more common, the automotive industry will experience significant changes in terms of production and supply chain management.
Despite the debate, Big Data remains a powerful tool for manufacturing companies to increase the accuracy of their planning and production cycles.
There's much misinformation about how Industry 4.0 came to be and how companies can deploy Industry 4.0 as a core driver of modernized, intelligent production.
Industry 4.0 is built upon the concepts of end-to-end visibility, agility, and efficiency across each touch point of the automotive value chain.
flexis VP Robert Recknagel discusses what Industry 4.0 is (and isn't) and explores the ways that technology should support the migration to Industry 4.0.
