Month: June 2016

How do you effectively track and generate work orders? Do you have a way to verify the projects completed by your workforce? Do you get notifications upon completion of any manufacturing process? How is spare parts inventory managed and controlled on the shop floor? Do you have an organized system to store manuals and warranty information virtually? How are your equipment and systems tracked for maintenance reporting and planning? 

Managing a manufacturing plant or a facility consists of a lot of challenging, complicated, and time-consuming efforts. Manufacturers should consider investigating the benefits of a well-implemented CMMS (Computerized maintenance management system), if they don’t have well-defined answers to the above questions.

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Every now and then we need to brush up on our knowledge. Let’s revisit some of our popular blog posts which are aimed to help reinforce fundamental concepts related to foundries. Controlling raw materials is critical to the success of iron casting production in green sand systems. In foundries, sand and clay play an important role. 

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The manufacturing industry is facing a severe gap between the talent required and what is actually available in the market. It is predicted that this gap will only widen in the future. To bridge the skills gap, the manufacturing industry needs to invest in training their employees with the skills they need in today’s technologically advanced world. 

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With the rapid rise of smartphones, shrinking attention spans, and budget constraints, the way eLearning is designed, developed, and delivered has changed. If organizations want to better align with employees, educational content has to be just-in-time, easy to access, and cut down into shorter, more easily digestible pieces. For these reasons, traditional eLearning methods have given way to microlearning. It is the new way to impart learning and training in almost every industry.

For imparting microlearning-based training, videos can be a highly effective medium.

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Over 75 percent of women surveyed by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, for a report, were of the opinion that a manufacturing career is interesting and rewarding. They emphasized that top reasons to stay in the industry are remuneration and opportunities to work on challenging assignments.

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