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The costs and benefits of global product traceability should be evaluated beyond WIP to ship
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2012/04/product-traceability-beyond-wip-to-ship/
AGCO improved production capacity while increasing quality, visibility and process consistency with a single investment
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2012/02/how-do-you-improve-production-throughput-capacity/
Automotive manufacturing continues to be impacted from its global transformation … expect a continuation into 2012
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2012/01/from-the-detroit-auto-show-whats-next-for-the-industry-in-2012/
The latest challenge now facing the automotive industry is constrained capacity while remaining agile … new Lean methodologies coupled with advanced manufacturing execution systems have helped with this transformation.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/09/squeezing-lemonade-from-the-automotive-lemon/
Technology requirements for new cars have put a burden on automotive manufacturers to perfectly deliver new product introductions.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/08/the-growing-complexity-in-automotive-manufacturing/
Impacts from the Japanese tsunami and nuclear crisis will shift manufacturing more towards being closer to where end users reside, including the US
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/05/why-the-japanese-tsunami-and-nuclear-crisis-will-shift-more-manufacturing-to-the-us/
A transformation is now underway in the automobile manufacturing industry to utilize a platform-based approach to manufacturing. Common platforms can be used to build many different automobile models, helping to improve efficiency, agility and responsiveness to change.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/03/for-auto-makers-platform-based-manufacturing-is-here-to-stay/
There was an article yesterday that did a great job highlighting something we’ve all come to recognize in the automotive manufacturing business. Discrete manufacturing and materials like metals and plastics are no longer king of the hill in cars. For the Chevrolet Volt, 40% of product development involved 10 million lines of code.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2010/11/chevy-volt-more-computer-than-car/
Kids and cars have been an inseparable duo in the U.S. since the 1950’s. Most of us have special memories wrapped around some scenario ultimately involving a car. The first one, the best looking one or the fastest one. Most of us move onto something else in life but some kids get a passion that never goes away. They’re forever hooked. So they go off to college, get a degree in engineering, mathematics, business or a hundred other disciplines and then join the automotive industry.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2010/09/buckeye-bullet-shows-what-kids-with-cars-can-do/
These forecasts are extremely complicated. Mastering that complexity with the help of technology is a multi-billion dollar industry, with disciplines that span dozens of fields. But if there’s one thing tough to predict it’s this.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2010/07/weather-the-supply-chain-and-the-accuracy-of-your-crystal-ball/
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