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Big bang ERP implementations are out. Rapid, incremental ‘little bang’ implementations are in. Leading edge software engineering organizations have embraced agile development principles for years, based on rapid, incremental releases.It’s about...

To the untrained eye, distribution may appear to be a fairly straightforward industry—in all reality, however, it is evolving more rapidly than ever before. From increased competition and changing business models to a barrage of new, innovative...

In today’s manufacturing environment, the usefulness of assembly line defect alerts (referred to as Andon alerts from their inception in the Japanese industrial revolution) has expanded even more and may now include other types of non-critical...

The factory floor continues its digital revolution, with sensors now embedded inside machines and on the assembly lines themselves to monitor production rates and quality. Those sensors can communicate with each other and to factory workers and...