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Achieving Operational Excellence within Mill Products Manufacturing Environments
Mill Products companies face strong business and manufacturing challenges to remain globally competitive and adaptable to changing market conditions while continuing to drive costs out of the business. These challenges come from many sources, including globalization, industry consolidation, customer-centric production strategies and inventory optimization strategies associated with the supply chain. [Sponsored by Apriso Corp. ]
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The Need for SOA to Achieve Flexibility and Agility within Plant Operations
The way in which manufacturers worldwide operate is evolving from reacting to demand - to anticipating and collaborating with trading partners. Manufacturers continue to face pressures to adapt their operations for rapid changes between different phases of the product life cycle as these life cycles shrink dramatically. [Sponsored by Apriso Corp. ]
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Augmenting the Value of ERP with an Operations Execution System
In order to remain globally competitive, implement continuous improvement initiatives and adhere to complex traceability requirements for regulatory compliance, manufacturers recognize that a nominal investment in an Operations Execution system can pay handsome rewards and incremental ROI on heavy investments already applied to ERP deployments. [Sponsored by Apriso Corp. ]
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1. The Lean Workforce: Applying Lean principles to improve workforce management
   Using Lean principles, manufacturers have made significant improvements to their operations, from improved productivity, increased resource utilization, to a more accurate understanding of product costs. [Sponsored by Kronos Inc. ]
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2. Blast Past Bottlenecks with Constraint Based Scheduling
   Lumpy demand due to seasonality or business cycle. Limited capacity in part of a plant. Skilled labor shortages. These and a number of other problems can be solved with constraint-based scheduling, also referred to as finite scheduling. Learn the basics of constraint-based scheduling including optimal, predictive and interactive scheduling. [Sponsored by IFS ]
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3. Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE): Achieving a Highly Effective Workforce
   This white paper will provide a description of Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE) and discuss how to use it as a tool to improve the overall effectiveness of the labor force. [Sponsored by Kronos Inc. ]
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4. Lean Enterprise Development in Engineer to Order Companies
   Learn how IFS Business Modeler and IFS Applications bring the lean disciplines normally associated with repetitive manufacturing to engineer to order companies. When information crosses departmental lines fluidly, take time and kaizen apply to ETO office activities like specifying, estimating and engineering and then extend on to the shop floor. [Sponsored by IFS ]
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5. 11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement
   An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. Use these 11 criteria to find the right software solution for your business. [Sponsored by Epicor Software Corp. ]
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6. Cognos Sales and Operations Planning Performance Blueprint Issue Paper
   Learn how to reconcile sales and demand forecasts with supply plans using an integrated performance management framework that ensures enterprise-wide alignment and effective decision-making. [Sponsored by Cognos, an IBM company ]
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7. Extending the Lean Enterprise – An Aberdeen Report
   Aberdeen Group is seeing a host of new approaches to implementing and sustaining Lean that are industry and often enterprise specific. Is your company using these approaches? [Sponsored by Infor ]
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8. ISO Profile: Davis Controls
   Learn how Davis Controls has been offering a comprehensive range of products for the industrial market since 1933. [Sponsored by Exact Software ]
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9. Extending Lean Initiatives Across the Organization: How greater efficiencies can extend beyond the manufacturing floor and back-office
   The lean workflow processes that control the back office are just as critical in managing the front-office. [Sponsored by Exact Software ]
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10. Digitize Work Processes with Industrial Workflow Execution
    Industrial workflow digitizes and streamlines your production – from your work instructions and SOPs to corrective action and HACCP monitoring. [Sponsored by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms ]
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