More and more industrial machinery and capital equipment manufacturers are streamlining and adopting new technology to automate business processes for more competitive lead times and to reduce waste in the organization.
Why? Industrial machinery and capital equipment manufacturers must identify, consider, and respond to a new set of challenges each day. Change for the industrial machinery industry is a given, making managing the change with tools and services to distinguish a manufacturing business from local and global competition is fundamental. With increasing pressure to reduce prices in a business climate of expanding raw material cost, reduced labor availability, and customers across the world, today’s industrial machinery operations are challenges with doing more, better, faster and cheaper.
What to do?
In this increasingly competitive market, if you aren’t keeping your customers happy someone else will. As your business grows and changes, you need a solution that can grow and change with you As a single solution able to be deployed on premise, hosted, or in the cloud – flexible, giving you the opportunity to scale your business for growth by leveraging the latest advanced technologies.
What are today’s industrial machinery operations seeking?
- Support for engineer-to-order and mixed-mode manufacturing.
- Enhanced cross-functional collaboration.
- Streamlined project management that supports cost management and schedule visibility.
- Sophisticated, real-time product lifecycle management.
- Regulatory requirement compliance management.
- Inventory movements and labor entries to be reported on the shop floor, giving management a more accurate, up-to-date view of production.
- Multi-site, multi-plant and global operation business management processes.
- Synchronization of complex relationships which determine supply, demand, and fulfillment is the means to reaching new, industry-leading levels of business performance, all while adhering to global standards for trade of parts.
- Innovative, easy-to-use scheduling tools help identify and eliminate bottlenecks across the enterprise.
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Lean Manufacturing Opportunity
Supporting your business strategies with applications built on service-oriented architecture (SOA) keeps the door open for industrial machinery businesses by meeting both the immediate requirement for scalability while supporting an open philosophy in the event your business strategy changes.
Epicor for Industrial Machinery is a real-time solution designed to support lean manufacturing.
Epicor for Industrial Machinery supports four types of Kanban, giving you the flexibility to run your work cells in a manner that best suits each situation or product. Whether you wish to replenish when minimums are met or replenish based on future demand, Epicor for Industrial Machinery can help to ensure that you have stock where you need it, when you need it. This solution combines the rules of material requirements planning with the efficiencies of Kanban manufacturing, giving users the ability to plan for the use of parts with long lead times, while at the same time allowing for replenishment of parts with little to no lead times. This flexibility to plan for all your resources leads to greater productivity and shorter lead times – the flexibility to grow your business.
Epicor ERP for the Industrial Machinery market provides the tools today’s industrial machinery operations need to compete.
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