Pacific Scientific HTL Goes E-Kanban With Datacraft Solutions Clearly PS/HTL needed a way out of the paper fax morass and into some kind of controlled, electronic kanban system. As PS/HTL's Purchasing Manager Cari Gintz says, "What led us to decide to go electronic kanban, was sheer frustration and the need to start managing instead of reacting."After a year and a half of using the paper fax release system, it was clear that it simply didn't scale for PS/HTL...... Similar Editorial : Hawker Pacific Job by Sumtotal Systems. | Source : Enterprise Resource
TR Cutler Profiles Kanban In Automation.com Thomas R. Cutler (www.trcutlerinc.com) authored a feature article about Kanban in the October issue of Automation.com (www.automation.com). Paper kanban intent has efficacy; the reality of cluttered transport routes, overflowing finished goods stores, immense quantities of WIP (work-in-progress) and unscheduled machine downtimes, often make the merits of this lean manufacturing functionality...... Similar Editorial : Automation Station by laurabel. | Source : Technology Innovations
Waste Elimination In Entire Prod Process - TR Cutler The September/October issue of Time Compression Technologies magazine includes a feature article, "Lean Manufacturing: How Big is the Market? Lean Enterprise: How Much Bigger is the Market?" authored by North America's leading manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler (www.trcutlerinc.com). Cutler provided a detailed history of the lean manufacturing marketing including how e-kanban solutions are...... Similar Editorial : Stop Waste by Chris Anderson. | Source : Technology Innovations
KOYO Integration With E-kanban & ERP By Materials Manager After several months in production, a new Materials Manager, Mark Mekanik, who had come from a more traditional manufacturing environment, was hired to oversee the raw material and purchased parts warehouse for KOYO. Datacraft Solutions allowed KOYO to migrate the manual faxbans onto an electronic kanban platform that included bar code scanning of inventory consumption and automatically conveying...... Similar Editorial : DB Integration by Valery Semchukov. | Source : Enterprise Resource
E-Kanban: Blanket Purchase Orders And Lean Manufacturing Blanket Purchase Orders are a "best practice" in the well-oiled kanban process. They minimize the flow of information between buyers and their suppliers, while maintaining the terms, conditions and integrity of the business relationship between the two parties. Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com), the leader in e-kanban, found that while managing a large number of suppliers with...... Source : Technology Innovations
Best Lean Electronic Supply Chain Practices According to Matthew Marotta, President of Datacraft Solutions, "If American manufacturers labor costs were free, administrative costs would still make them the high cost competitor." Joining Marotta at the AME Boston 2005 Annual Conference is Kevin Sumstine, former director of Corporate Purchasing, Planning, and Logistics for dj Orthopedics. The two Lean manufacturing leaders will address, "Best...... Similar Editorial : Supply Chain Management by Thomas Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resource
Datacraft Solutions Profiled In Datacraft Solutions, www.datacraftsolutions.com, is the leading e-kanban provider worldwide. In the new Oaklea Press book "The Big Squeeze: Ten Ways to Cut Your Company's Expenses 10% Right Now," the benefits of the e-kanban process is highlighted.Matthew Marotta, CEO of Datacraft Solutions, noted that, "finding rapid ROI elements of lean encourage the basic continued process improvement concept....... Similar Editorial : Datacraft Solutions e by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resource
A Policy Of Striving For Continuous Improvement - TR Cutler The September/October issue of Time Compression Technologies magazine includes a feature article, "Lean Manufacturing: How Big is the Market? Lean Enterprise: How Much Bigger is the Market?" authored by North America's leading manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler (www.trcutlerinc.com). Cutler provided a detailed history of the lean manufacturing marketing including how e-kanban solutions are...... Similar Editorial : From Striving To Thriving by Helaine Iris. | Source : Technology Innovations
ERP Selection Process Profiled In Food Engineering In the latest issue of Food Engineering magazine, leading manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler, profiled Calhoun Bend Mill. Based in Jonesville, Louisiana, Calhoun Bend Mill manufactures a wide variety of dessert, cornbread, and fry mixes. The company sells its products to grocery stores via direct store delivery distributors (DSD), and via phone, mail order and the Internet. Other...... Similar Editorial : Encompix Profiled in Automation by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resource
TechSolve Speaks About Kanban In Automation.com Thomas R. Cutler (www.trcutlerinc.com) authored a feature article about Kanban in the October issue of Automation.com (www.automation.com). Sue Via, Senior Project Engineer with TechSolve (www.techsolve.org) suggests that Kanban is only part of the lean process, “Kanban is a higher order concept and many things must be in place before implementation of the concept is feasible....... Similar Editorial : Automation Station by laurabel. | Source : Technology Innovations
TechSolve And Datacraft Solutions Cited In Automation.com Paper kanban intent has efficacy; the reality of cluttered transport routes, overflowing finished goods stores, immense quantities of WIP (work-in-progress) and unscheduled machine downtimes, often make the merits of this lean manufacturing functionality questionable. When there are also frequent complaints about delivery problems, the reality is quite distant from the theory. Poor implementation...... Similar Editorial : Datacraft Solutions e by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resource
Distribution Supply Chain Brings Growth To PRONTO North America Distribution streamlines physical process such as the picking and packing of goods as well as the movement of goods internally (warehousing) and externally (shipping and transportation logistics). This process also allows for the extended supply chain through the transmission and receipt of electronic messages.Distribution manages all stock related operations across the extended enterprise. It...... Similar Editorial : PRONTO North America by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Technology Innovations
PRONTO Project Costing Management According to Mike Ligudzinski, CEO of PRONTO North America, "Project Costing Management tracks projects from the estimation and quotation stage all the way through to completion. Project Costing Management automates the processes of producing quotations, recording, and controlling costs and tracking project performance."Projects may be linked together in various ways to form a hierarchy, with...... Similar Editorial : Careers In Project Management by . | Source : Technology Innovations
PRONTO North America Rental Integration Not A Bolt-On By managing all aspects of rental contractions, from preparing the equipment, creating the contract, delivering the goods and invoicing contracted values; PRONTO-Xi provides a functionality which also manages the return and servicing of rented equipment.According to Mike Ligudzinski, CEO of PRONTO North America, "Our capacity to provide an integrated, non-bolt-on, rental solution is vital to many...... Similar Editorial : PRONTO North America by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Technology Innovations
Service Management Translates Into Better Call Management Service Management incorporates a flexible network that maps the diverse requirements of customers to the system. Whether a fleet of vans carrying parts, a team of on-site engineers, or a pool of technicians with various skills sets, all the functionality to service customers is possible while increasing the profitability of a company operation. Calls can be entered and prioritized by customers...... Similar Editorial : Debt Management Service by Roger John. | Source : Technology Innovations
