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Topics: CRM, Manufacturing, Field Service, Energy

Why is Connected Field Service becoming so popular?

Field service without an onsite technician? Yes! It’s possible. Imagine how much time and money you could save and how much value you could add for customers, if you were able to resolve most ...

Topics: IoT & Analytics, Manufacturing

Use of Blockchain in the Manufacturing Industry

Recently we talked about blockchain in the oil & gas industry, and the next logical question is…

Topics: Manufacturing

10 Lessons Learned after 30 Years in Manufacturing

1. Disrupt or be disrupted. In 2017, the manufacturing industry experienced game-changing opportunities. This competitive landscape will only continue in 2018. Manufacturers agile enough to ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Technology’s Role in the Manufacturing Revolution

When you have money to improve operations, what is the best use of that budget? Do you hire more workers? Buy new equipment? Or do you invest in software technology?

Topics: Manufacturing

5 Ways to Reduce Your Manufacturing Inventory Costs

Do you have a CFO breathing down your neck to reduce manufacturing inventory costs? As the VP of Manufacturing, you have one tough job! On one hand, if you don’t have enough of the right inventory on ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Better, Faster, Cheaper ERP for Manufacturers

I’m sure you’ve seen that old saying about services. There are only 3 types of services: good, cheap and fast – and you can only pick two:

Topics: Manufacturing

5 Myths Busted about ERP for Manufacturers

Manufacturing and ERP systems have had a rocky relationship, one filled with big promises, missed opportunities and lots of misinformation. Companies trying to leverage manufacturing technology for ...

Topics: Manufacturing

3 Ways Engineers are Staying on Top of Auto Regulations

Automotive engineers involved in the sales process have a responsibility to ensure that your automotive supply company stays on top of the latest regulations. Changes in regulations often drive ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Bridging the Gap: Current Processes & Future Models

When we work with clients to implement lean manufacturing principles, we typically use a software tool called LeanCONNECT (formerly called Areteium). With this tool, we can use existing manufacturing ...

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

Increase Quality Without Increasing Production Cost

Razor thin margins leave little room for production errors. Because product recalls and customer refunds are so expensive, you want to be able to consistently deliver quality products, but without ...

Topics: Manufacturing

When Lean Manufacturing isn’t Worth the Effort

As a company who has been doing manufacturing ERP implementations and has been evangelizing lean manufacturing principles for a long time, we believe in lean principles, and believe they can be ...

Topics: CRM, ERP, Manufacturing

CFOs are demanding modern manufacturing technology

“How do you achieve better profit margins?” That’s the bottom line question for every CFO. Your job is to make sure there’s enough money in the bank to keep operations running smoothly, and to decide ...

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

What is ManufacturingCONNECT Accelerator?

Since manufacturing enterprise management software (ERP`) was first developed, a truth that “everyone knows” is that implementing new MRP / ERP software is a long, expensive and complicated process.

Topics: CRM, ERP, Manufacturing

5 Secrets to Improving Bid Responses for Auto Suppliers

Automotive supplier sales reps and engineers spend a lot of time responding to RFPs (Requests for Proposals). With so much time and energy going into formulating each response, what can you do to ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Life After Moving to a Modern ERP System

Anytime you switch out your ERP system, you can expect a certain amount of grumbling. Change doesn’t come easy to most people! But if you are moving off an older system that hasn’t been upgraded in a ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Starting your Lean Manufacturing Journey

Every journey begins with a first step. And the first step is deciding, “Where do I want to go?” Lean Manufacturing is a process that is designed to take your manufacturing production from supplier ...

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

The Fastest Way to “Go Live” on Dynamics 365!

A typical ERP implementation may take months, even years, to deploy. But Microsoft has made it possible for companies choosing Microsoft Dynamics 365 to go live in just weeks!

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

Auto Manufacturers are Bucking the Profit Erosion Trend

Are your profits eroding slowly over time? For automotive suppliers and other manufacturers who sell to giant corporations, profit erosion is a common problem. There’s no one big issue that can get ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Still running MAPICS?

Make the move to Microsoft Dynamics 365 MAPICS, now owned by Infor and re-branded as XA, has been a leading ERP manufacturing solution for several decades now. Many of the largest manufacturers in ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Is Your Auto ERP System Keeping You From Increasing Revenue?

Automotive suppliers who manufacture and sell their products to large automobile manufacturers can sometimes feel squeezed. Automobile manufacturers can be demanding clients – they can request lots ...

Topics: Manufacturing

How to Shorten the Bid Process and Close Deals Faster

As a company that frequently works with automotive supply manufacturers to implement technology systems, we find that while some companies have mastered the manufacturing production process, very few ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Auto Supplier CEOs Use Tech as a Competitive Advantage

The best CEOs have a firm grasp of the big picture and understand enough of the details to know how to adjust course to meet the company’s goals. Your success as a CEO largely depends on your ability ...

Topics: Manufacturing

6 Ways Manufacturers Can Improve Business Agility

Business agility is the name of the manufacturing game! How do you keep agile so you can capitalize on opportunities, while making sure you have enough finished product to meet demand? Here are 6 ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Is your biggest manufacturing constraint your ERP system?

Recognizing and overcoming manufacturing constraints is one of the main jobs of running any manufacturing operation. You have your standard:

Topics: Manufacturing

5 Costly Manufacturing KPI Mistakes CFOs Make

Being a numbers-driven manufacturing CFO is a good thing – in fact, it’s essential. But as a CFO, you probably know finance and operations more than you know the ins-and-outs of manufacturing, which ...

Topics: Manufacturing

HBD Manufacturing with MCA Connect & Microsoft

HBD Industries Selects Microsoft Dynamics 365 and MCA Connect to Enable World-Class Manufacturing Operations

Topics: Manufacturing

Value Stream Mapping: Do your materials move by magic?

Does your lean manufacturing value stream map include movement of materials between processes?

Topics: Manufacturing

Lean Production Scheduling in Dynamics 365

Let’s look in some detail at production scheduling for lean manufacturing in Dynamics AX. If you haven’t read my blog series on production scheduling supporting lean principles, I encourage you to ...

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

Production Scheduling – Level the Volume

This post is part of our series discussing the 7 lean manufacturing guidelines. In this post we’ll discuss supermarkets as a way to design a lean future state.

Topics: Manufacturing

Production Scheduling – Level the Mix

This post is part of our series discussing the 7 lean manufacturing guidelines. In this post we’ll discuss supermarkets as a way to design a lean future state.

Topics: Manufacturing

Production Scheduling – Schedule at One Point

This post is part of our series discussing the 7 lean manufacturing guidelines. In this post we’ll discuss supermarkets as a way to design a lean future state.

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

Production Scheduling – Supermarkets and Pull

This post is part of our series discussing the 7 lean manufacturing guidelines. In this post we’ll discuss supermarkets as a way to design a lean future state.

Topics: Manufacturing

5 Ways Manufacturers Can Increase Customer Loyalty

Most manufacturers and distributors don’t place enough focus on driving customer loyalty. Sure, if you are a manufacturer, you want repeat business, but where customers get the most frustrated is the ...

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Topics: Manufacturing

Manufacturing Re-Imagined

How can manufacturing ERP systems and related technologies solve manufacturing challenges using new approaches? That was the question our manufacturing experts answered at “Manufacturing ...

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

Production Scheduling – Building to Takt

This is the second post in our series discussing the 7 lean manufacturing guidelines. The first guideline is to design a lean future state by producing to your takt time.

Topics: Manufacturing

Production Scheduling – 7 Lean Principles

The other day I came across an early version of the Lean Enterprise Institute’s “Learning to See” workshop from 1999. The workshop listed seven guidelines for the design of a future state value ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Manufacturing Feeling Squeezed?

Why is it that every time I am out with customers I end up with something new to blog about? Probably because I am insanely curious about each customer as I look to creatively help them to improve ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Configurators: NPI Every Time All the Time

Maybe it’s because we specialize in high mix manufacturing or maybe there are just more of them out there, but we are increasingly working with companies with highly configurable products who want to ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Kanban Cards or MRP?

OK so the title of this article was incendiary and just a ploy to get you here. Sorry. Instead of another vitriolic diatribe on the glories of kanban over MRP I want to look at a very specific ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Using an LTS to Sustain Lean Manufacturing Benefits

What’s an LTS? It’s the acronym for Lean Transformation Software. While LTS is not as well-known as other acronyms in our industry like ERP, CRM, MRP, PowerBI, etc – it should be – because LTS ...

Topics: ERP, Manufacturing

MCA Connect is 2015 Microsoft AX Manufacturing Partner

DENVER, CO Sept 1, 2015 Last month, Microsoft proudly announced the United States Microsoft Dynamics Partner Award winners during the US Microsoft Dynamics Annual Conference. “The US Partner Awards ...

Topics: Manufacturing

AXUG and Beyond with Technology for Lean

Last week’s AXUG Summit in St. Louis was a great opportunity to check in on the state of lean in the Dynamics AX community and beyond. Some perspectives: Manufacturers with lots of variation and ...

Topics: Manufacturing

When Lean Needs a Technology Assist

Lean is often portrayed as “common sense” for manufacturing. Indeed, lean tools emphasize simple visual practices that are easy to learn and easy to use. What could be simpler than using a kanban ...

Topics: Manufacturing

Lean Beyond the Checklist

Let’s face it, ERP products are massive affairs. They have to be in order to support the breadth of functions across an enterprise and business requirements across industries. The selection of an ERP ...

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Why is Connected Field Service becoming so popular?

Use of Blockchain in the Manufacturing Industry

10 Lessons Learned after 30 Years in Manufacturing

Technology’s Role in the Manufacturing Revolution

5 Ways to Reduce Your Manufacturing Inventory Costs

Better, Faster, Cheaper ERP for Manufacturers

5 Myths Busted about ERP for Manufacturers

3 Ways Engineers are Staying on Top of Auto Regulations

Bridging the Gap: Current Processes & Future Models

Increase Quality Without Increasing Production Cost

When Lean Manufacturing isn’t Worth the Effort

CFOs are demanding modern manufacturing technology

What is ManufacturingCONNECT Accelerator?

5 Secrets to Improving Bid Responses for Auto Suppliers

Life After Moving to a Modern ERP System

Starting your Lean Manufacturing Journey

The Fastest Way to “Go Live” on Dynamics 365!

Auto Manufacturers are Bucking the Profit Erosion Trend

Still running MAPICS?

Is Your Auto ERP System Keeping You From Increasing Revenue?

How to Shorten the Bid Process and Close Deals Faster

Auto Supplier CEOs Use Tech as a Competitive Advantage

6 Ways Manufacturers Can Improve Business Agility

Is your biggest manufacturing constraint your ERP system?

5 Costly Manufacturing KPI Mistakes CFOs Make

HBD Manufacturing with MCA Connect & Microsoft

Value Stream Mapping: Do your materials move by magic?

Lean Production Scheduling in Dynamics 365

Production Scheduling – Level the Volume

Production Scheduling – Level the Mix

Production Scheduling – Schedule at One Point

Production Scheduling – Supermarkets and Pull

5 Ways Manufacturers Can Increase Customer Loyalty

Manufacturing Re-Imagined

Production Scheduling – Building to Takt

Production Scheduling – 7 Lean Principles

Manufacturing Feeling Squeezed?

Configurators: NPI Every Time All the Time

Kanban Cards or MRP?

Using an LTS to Sustain Lean Manufacturing Benefits

MCA Connect is 2015 Microsoft AX Manufacturing Partner

AXUG and Beyond with Technology for Lean

When Lean Needs a Technology Assist

Lean Beyond the Checklist

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