Manufacturing continues to stand as one of the final frontiers to digital transformation. We are now a decade into Industry 4.0, and all of us can agree that it’s been an exhilarating ten years.

Henry Ford gets the credit for creating the first moving assembly line and revolutionizing the process of making cars, as well as manufacturing in general. And rightly so, but what Henry Ford also did ...

No self-respecting, manufacturing conference covering a broad spectrum of topics these days would be without a session or two on Lean Manufacturing—which continues to be a hot industry topic. Such was ...

The challenges that manufacturing ventures face on a daily basis are often related to maintaining a smooth workflow and ensuring that inventory is used efficiently. Businesses in any phase of growth ...

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Semiconductor manufacturing represents one of the most technically demanding sectors in modern industry, where production planning and supply chain management are imperative for ensuring efficiency, ...

What is a multi-level BOM? A multi-level BOM is a bill of materials that details the composition of the product as well as the composition of the subassemblies used in the product. While a ...

Digital information technologies can help companies enhance their lean manufacturing strategies. Tim Stuart, founder and president at Visual Decisions Inc., used a FitBit to illustrate how. “FitBit ...

While some manufacturers are transitioning to lean production systems -- which emphasize lot sizes of one and are driven by demand-based pull signals -- others are still mired in a "mass-production ...