AI and the manufacturing cycle train

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  1. Blue Diamond Growers Cultivates Quality

    With a rapidly growing business that had reached the limits of its mostly manual, paper-based product development processes, Blue Diamond Growers — the world’s leading almond marketer and processor — needed a reliable, efficient way to ensure the accuracy of data throughout the organization. Most of the information used by different groups within the company…

  2. Closed-Loop Manufacturing, Realized

    Digitalization is revolutionizing manufacturing through Smart Manufacturing and the Industry 4.0 concept, driven by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This transformation emphasizes data and connectivity, integrating Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to enable Closed-Loop Manufacturing. This integration fosters process optimization, intelligent decision-making, and continuous improvement across…

  3. How Rich Products Delivers to Customers Faster

    This article outlines how Rich Products is creating new business opportunities and enhancing its customer interaction experience by redesigning its product development processes. It examines the company’s overall strategy for the redesign, including its proof-of-concept planning, the benefits it aims to achieve, and the efforts involved in securing end-user engagement and acceptance. Membership Required You…

  4. Intelligent PLM Benchmark Report

    Agile and Intelligent PLM is poised to take the use of data and intelligence across the product lifecycle to a whole new level. Discover what is driving adoption of Agile and Intelligent PLM, what sets Leaders apart, and what holds Laggards back. Gain the key requirements and steps to success. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can...…

  5. How to Set Up SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Business Scenario Capabilities

    Become acquainted with basic technical activities that are invaluable for productive use and successful implementation and operation of SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management 1.0 business scenarios. Key Concept SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management (SAP SLC) is a system designed to enhance the management of supplier-related business scenarios – Supplier Registration, Supplier Master Data Management, Supplier Qualification, Supplier...…

  6. Manage Lifecycle Planning in SAP APO

    Learn how lifecycle planning can be configured in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) to forecast a new product, manage the introduction of the new product (phase-in), phase out the old product being replaced, and integrate it with forecasting techniques. Follow a step-by-step procedure to configure and run the associated master data objects, run...…

  7. Inside a Multi-Phased SAP Digitization Journey

    In 2006, the European Union passed a new regulation that heralded dramatic changes for Varian Medical Systems, a producer of medical devices for oncology, imaging, and proton therapy. Under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, Varian had to reengineer many of its products in order to make their chemical compositions environmentally compliant. This was…

  8. Inside a Multi-Phased SAP Digitization Journey II

    Mobile service provider Vodafone Group has grown tremendously since its creation 27 years ago. And in today’s booming mobile market, there is no foreseeable end in sight. But to continue to grow as a company, Vodafone needed to function more like a single entity, with common practices, centralized operations, and data sharing between operating companies.…

  9. Mobilize Your Technicians with Mobile Asset Management

    SAP Mobile Asset Management can enhance maintenance processes through distribution of data to technicians and engineers in the field. If you are planning to implement it, your project strategy should take some key points into account. Key Concept Preventive and corrective maintenance are basic best practices for a supply chain. SAP Mobile Asset Management (MAM)...…

  10. Support for Connected Products Begins with Design

    With demand for customized products growing each day, and the Internet of Things (IoT) enabling real-time insight into smart, connected products, product designers are facing a new world of research and development (R&D). Not only must products provide ongoing usefulness to the customer, they must inform R&D on how to make any necessary adjustments to…