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Know your business; improve your chances of success
Operating blindly just doesn’t cut it in today’s manufacturing world
- By Dan Davis
- UPDATED September 27, 2022
- September 29, 2022
Here’s a question for you: Is your shop future-ready?
More specifically, is your business ready to take on new business? If you rely on gut feelings, anecdotes from shop floor workers, or occasional observations of first shift operations, you might not be in the best position to answer that very important question. If a company is about to make a large technology investment, it needs to make sure that the expenditure is actually needed.
Software can help a shop get a better understanding of what’s happening in the organization. Such a system can automatically collect data equipment, giving company owners or managers the real-time visibility and reporting needed to figure out if manufacturing capacity is available. Management also gets a true glimpse in manufacturing performance and quality output.
“5 Ways Fabricated Metal Manufacturers Can Increase Production” is a webinar that will further explore how companies can get their organization more prepared for future success. This webinar on Oct. 18 at noon central time will explore how software can help metal fabricators better understand their customer demands, when it makes sense to introduce automation to production, how to match people and material availability to production schedules, how to increase the flexibility of shop floor operations, and how to determine the true cost of a project.
You can register for the webinar here.
Flying blind in today manufacturing economy is a guarantee for rough going. Actually knowing what’s happening in an organization gives it the best chance of adapting to all of the unknown challenges ahead.
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The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
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Dan Davis is editor-in-chief of The Fabricator, the industry's most widely circulated metal fabricating magazine, and its sister publications, The Tube & Pipe Journal and The Welder. He has been with the publications since April 2002.
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