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When Demand Outpaces Site Capacity: How a Plant Simulator Identifies Solutions
The past several years have brought frequent and abrupt changes in consumer demand. The COVID-19 pandemic brought sudden surges in spending on household necessities and cleaning products, while the subsequent recovery has resulted in pent-up demand for leisure products and...
Using a Digital Twin to Optimize Pharmaceutical Site Investments and Resource Allocation
Pharmaceutical companies have seen significant growth in revenue since 2020. For these future-thinking companies, it is important to reinvest funds into their facilities to add resources and new capabilities to fuel continued innovation. Currently, Goldman Sachs estimates...
How Manufacturing Social Media Improves Plant Operations
When Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites hit the Internet in the 2000s, they completely changed the way people communicated with each other online. In addition, they gave businesses an avenue to gain insights from their audience and provide important news...
How VirtECS Compares to SchedulePro for Planning, Scheduling & Modeling Pharmaceutical Plants
VirtECS and SchedulePro from Intelligen are two of the leading providers of planning, scheduling, and modeling services. These advanced tools address similar challenges that many manufacturers face in optimizing their processes and maximizing output. However, VirtECS and...
Discrete Event Simulation vs Math Programming Technology for Pharmaceutical Plants
With many factors to account for and an extensive number of events to sequence, planning and scheduling for pharmaceutical sites is incredibly complicated to execute. This complexity has made way for multiple planning and scheduling software systems to hit the market over...
The Power of Combined Knowledge & Data Sharing in Manufacturing
For manufacturing organizations, gathering, organizing, and analyzing all the available data about their internal processes is important for many reasons. However, elite companies that want to gain deeper knowledge and implement the most successful strategies have started...
Why Implement the Same Tools Across All of Your Manufacturing Sites?
Despite the interconnected nature of the modern business world, many manufacturing companies still treat their production sites as individual, separate entities. These facilities are often located offsite from the company’s headquarters and tend to focus on their specific...
Benefits of Human-In-The-Loop Software for Production Sites
In recent years, manufacturers have started prioritizing investments in automation and AI for their plants. According to data from IFS, more than 90% of all manufacturers are planning to invest in AI for their production processes. We recently took a closer look at how AI...
A Look into States’ Battle for a Slice of the Semiconductor Business
As we’ve covered in previous articles, semiconductors are making quite the entrance to the United States manufacturing landscape. For years, the semiconductor industry was limited to a small geographic area in Asia. Between newly imposed tariffs and pandemic-influenced...
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