10 Ways to Reduce Cost in Outsourced Prototyping

 How can product development teams regain control of the process and actually cut costs? Here are 10 areas on which to focus.

2011 How to Sell Management on a New ERP System

Enterprise resource planning systems, or ERP systems, have become much more accessible to midsize and even smaller companies in that past three years. Standard features have matured, eliminating much of the guesswork of software selection, while the systems have become easier to deploy and use.

5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean

Why is Lean so popular? Because it delivers what manufacturing companies truly need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and enhanced customer service.

5 Ways Unified Communications Manufactures New Efficiencies and Cost Savings

For manufacturers, time to market pressure has never been more extreme. You can't manufacture time. You can however, buy some. Get critical insights on the ways collaborative video and voice solutions can increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs and streamline product introductions.

8 Steps to Validating-Mapping a Chamber

Periodic mapping of conditions within environmental chambers (including refrigerators, freezers, stability chambers, and warehouses) is critical for compliance in FDA-regulated applications, where validation of conditions such as temperature, and sometimes humidity, is mandated. This application note recommends some options to help meet cGMP requirements for validation projects. These are broad guidelines only, and most recommendations are based upon using data loggers as the sensing device.

2011 10 Tips to Optimize Your ERP Initiatives

Enterprise relationship planning, or ERP, is notoriously complex to implement. Horror stories abound about failed installations, unresponsive vendors, and wasted investments. As daunting as ERP can be, many organizations can’t operate without it — ERP brings together different aspects of the back office for greater efficiency and insight into business processes.

6 Technology Tactics to Promote Corporate Responsibility

This white paper presents how to use technology systems to help your business promote corporate social responsibility.

10 Steps to a Successful Smart Services Evaluation

A successful remote service solution has the potential to impact business processes in every part of a company. The perception of remote services will depend on each stakeholder’s own goals and perspective of where value is created.

Asking the Right Questions About Cartridge Dust Collection

Whitepaper covers four key areas to investigate when selecting a dust collector: compliance, problem-solving, reliability, and return on investment.

Assortment of Hoses, Couplings, Industry Standards Requires Hydraulic Systems Approach

Choose the right OE hydraulic hose and coupling system for your application. Size, pressure capabilities, material, temperature and more factor into hose selection. Plus, opting for components from one manufacturer is an important step in preventing downtime and injury

Aerial Work Platform Maintenance - ENSURING A SAFE AND EFFICIENT WORKPLACE

With a lasting economic downturn, it’s more important than ever to ensure that you stay on budget and within deadlines. And while some delays are inevitable — those caused by extreme weather, for example — it’s preventing the preventable that’s crucial for maintaining efficiency.

Achieving Efficient Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Through Process & Automation

 The myriad of procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet organizations that can master the management all of these activities—and demonstrate that they have done it—operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands and good names in the marketplace.