The past few years have brought more disruption to every industry than businesses have experienced for several decades. From the mass pause on productivity brought about by the covid pandemic, to the current situation in Ukraine, rising prices globally and material shortages worldwide, the only thing that has become constant in recent times is change […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Manufacturing companies already know that digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, are transforming the way the industry operates. For many, however, figuring out where to begin the digital journey remains a challenge. These disruptive technologies are often viewed as aspirational and talked about on a macro scale, so it’s […]
What is It? Gartner gives an effective definition of digitalisation as ‘the use of digital technologies to change a business model to provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities.’ It refers to the ‘process of moving to a digital business.’ If digitisation is the art of making analogue data digital, then digitalisation moves beyond this, leveraging […]
What is It? Not to be confused with digitalisation, digitisation explains the process of making something analogue become digital. In the business environment this is most often files, ledgers, or images to make accompanying data easier to access, share and manipulate. Information is organised into units called bits that can be separately addressed in groups […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes As manufacturers and distributors inject their operations with innovative technologies in an effort to transform them into smart factories, a shift in how those factories are staffed has emerged. As industries evolve, the distance between the worker and the job has grown, for example back in the day the worker had one tool […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes The pandemic and recent challenges have placed unprecedented pressure on manufacturing companies, which have been forced to adapt to supply chain interruptions, market shifts and labour shortages. But with these challenges have come opportunities – to reconfigure work, transform operations and emerge with more resiliency and ingenuity than ever before. Manual production lines […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Several years ago, only the bravest and most ambitious enterprises embarked on the digital transformation journey, today the industry landscape has changed. Now digitalisation of manufacturing and distribution supply chain processes has become imperative, especially after the pandemic, which caused disruptions and revealed multiple gaps and weaknesses in the global supply chain. To compete […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. Transitioning from manual operations and implementing automated solutions enhances processes and improves performance monitoring and decision making, avoiding rework, downtime, defects, and bottlenecks and ultimately improve customer service and increase profitability. The digital […]
Just over 100 years ago, when the world was going through its previous pandemic (the 1919 Spanish flu), the organizational structure of divisions and departments we accept as normal were only just being defined, by people like Alfred Sloan and Frederick Taylor. Businesses came up with methods, based on paper, to monitor performance, and memos […]
Are you struggling with duplication of processes with disparate systems, the inability to support a mobile workforce, scrambling to keep track of resources, departments within the organisation working in silos, and the list goes on. Are you looking at a new ERP system to solve these problems? Why not take a look at our ‘seven […]
