Machine shops today are facing numerous challenges from supply chain disruptions, manual processes hindering efficient and timely activities, labor shortages and training, and many other concerns. These challenges are leading shops to look into areas of their business for automation and transparency. The key solution many are finding is job shop management solutions, but the difficulty is understanding how they work, where they impact the business and how they can address the many challenges the industry sees.
Agenda:
- Machine shop challenges
- What is shop management?
- Areas of improvement: scheduling, estimating, quoting, purchasing, inventory and more
- The impact and results of shop management