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The food industry is notorious for having high levels of giveaway in its manufacturing processes despite its lower-than-average profit margins. Reducing product giveaway is therefore an easy way to increase the profitability of food manufacturing facilities without requiring extensive investments or equipment overhauls.  MES software allows you to perform real-time materials management that may greatly lessen the amount of food

Overall Equipment Effectiveness or OEE is arguably the most important metric in the manufacturing industry. This single stat tells you exactly how well your facility is using the resources you have on hand and how you measure up compared to the facilities that your competitors are running. A typical score falls between 40-60%, and 85% is considered the gold standard.

The average American manufacturing facility uses 95.1 kWh of energy per square foot each year, and facilities in other countries aren’t far behind. The shop floor is, clearly, a major consumer of energy. This expenditure represents millions of dollars of investment for each plant and is often one of the largest costs that must be accounted for during its operations.

One of the great challenges in production management is figuring out how to reduce waste in manufacturing. Even if you think your facility is doing well on this front, it is worth considering whether your material usage could be optimized even further. After all, savings of just 1% in purchasing eventually translate into 5% in profits (source: Materials & Finance

The COVID-19 quarantine has forced businesses everywhere to shift to remote operations and drastically re-evaluate the scale of their operations for the immediate future. The coronavirus' impact on manufacturing is no different. This pandemic is causing major disruptions in the usual forces of supply and demand and forcing managers to monitor production lines and resource usage at a distance; in

It's official - coronavirus is here, and it's not going away anytime soon. Countries all over the world are asking their citizens to make drastic changes to their daily lives in order to fight the spread of the disease. With such a massive shift in behavior naturally comes a shift in manufacturing needs. Luckily, you don't have to go into