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ERPJanuary 22, 2024

QuickBooks Alternative: Is ERP Right for Your Manufacturing Business?

The situation: Your small manufacturing company has run fairly well on QuickBooks software to handle the basic accounting needs you’ve required to get established. All the while, you’ve worked hard to determine your competitive advantage and build a value proposition — and customer base — that says you’re going to be one of the lucky ones that makes it!

MESJanuary 17, 2024

What is Clean in Place (CIP) and Best Practices

Manufacturing and processing pharmaceutical, food, and beverage products requires highly effective cleaning solutions. Cleaning in place offers an efficient way to support clean processing methods… Read more

TraceabilityJanuary 16, 2024

Supporting the digital transformation in the seafood industry

In reality, most data in seafood operations have historically been recorded on paper and not passed along the chain. Traditionally, the seafood industry has lagged behind other food industries in terms of digitalization. Until recently, the industry has been dependent upon a backbone of paper-based systems, despite individual operations capturing digital records. This has been, […]

Connected WorkerJanuary 8, 2024

What is Tribal Knowledge and How to Capture it

Tribal knowledge is informal, undocumented, and valuable information restricted to only a few people in a workplace. Organizations invest significant resources in documenting their standard… Read more

Connected WorkerJanuary 5, 2024

What is Operational Excellence in Manufacturing?

Operational excellence is a business management method that focuses on creating a culture of continuous improvement. It does so by fostering employee investment in the… Read more

Connected WorkerJanuary 2, 2024

What is Preventative Maintenance?

Downtime, systems failure, and lapsed operations can completely wreck a business's productivity and revenues. Reports show that unplanned downtime costs businesses over $50 billion annually…. Read more

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