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Shortening delivery times, boosting productivity and optimizing the workforce are front and center for furniture and home furnishings producers, as they have been for years. The difference today is that manufacturers face the triple threat of rising material costs, shipping challenges and a competitive labor market.
An out of control inventory process impacts your factory in so many ways. Items are incorrectly located, obsolete, overstocked or understocked - you just don’t know. It’s pretty chaotic to release production orders without accurate inventory data and you really don’t even know if your bill of materials is priced accurately.
Textile manufacturing whether it is apparel, furniture, seating, home furnishings or mattresses suffer from a dirty little secret. That secret is costing manufacturers big time. Up to 50% of precious company resources are devoted to rework and other non-value added tasks. Is this you? How do you know?
What makes a superhero special? You guessed it, their superpower. For real, how interesting is Superman without his X-ray vision and other abilities? Well, imagine for a minute having access to technology that has its own superpower? The technology we are going to explore today is machine monitoring and its superpower is instant insight.
