Shop Management Software
Integrated Tool Management
Bridging the gap between process engineering and shop floor activities can bring about a "deproliferation" of cutting tools.
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Automating Time Studies
This company has created a system that replaces the stopwatch and clipboard system of time study and the manual data transfer and analysis process.
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Software Helps Shop Cut Inventory Costs
The management of inventory is a problem that can plague almost any industry, including machine shops and machining-intensive manufacturing operations. Here is just such a case.
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Shop Floor Computers Help Machine Shop Manager Growth
The management team at this CNC machining facility realized that the company's shop software was inadequate to manage the rapid growth the company was experiencing.
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Shop Boosts Manufacturing Efficiency...Profits With A...Cost Estimating System
To win jobs from customers that include NASA, aerospace companies, and a variety of petrochemical, oilfield and gas industries, a precision machine shop must respond to an average of 150 customer Requests for Quotes (RFQs) per week.
Read MorePaperless ERP...Overcomes Language Barriers...Enhances Data Collection...
While communication at the company's facility was good, this shop, which is highly customer focused, wanted to further enhance its communication between shifts and between departments.
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Software Brings Better Control of Manufacturing Data
Like many businesses, this fitting manufacturer eagerly embraced new computer technology as it became available. But by the mid-1990s, its eight computers ran on three separate networks, based on operating system compatibility.
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Scalable Measurement And Quality
Machine shop owners face a fundamental conflict in their efforts to make metrology an integral part of manufacturing processes. On one hand, the critical relationship between quality and profitability makes metalworking professionals reluctant to change tried-and-true methods. On the other hand, however, the drive for better productivity demands that every aspect of the manufacturing process be rationalized and increasingly divorced from the realm of human subjectivity.
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New ERP System Halves Administrative Staff
This manufacturer is one of the largest contract machining shops in the Houston, Texas, area, offering machining and assembly services to the oil tool industry. The company purchased software to run its manufacturing operations more than five years ago.
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Company Reduces Inventory And Costs With New Software
The Aerospace Group of Parker Hannifin Corporation, located in Irvine, California, is a leader in the development, design, manufacture and service of control systems and components for aerospace and related high technology markets.
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