Year: 2026

The Future of Light Manufacturing Automation for Small Businesses

The Future of Lite Manufacturing Automation for Small Businesses 

For decades, automation was synonymous with vast and expensive factories where robots costing millions of dollars would be installed in cages apart from humans. This was beyond the reach of small-scale and medium-size small manufacturers. Industries like packaging, electronics assembly, and boutique consumer goods production. The manufacturing industry is facing one…
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Manufacturing Cost Control: Why Accurate Production Posting Matters

Manufacturing Cost Control: Why Accurate Production Posting Matters

Cost control has traditionally been viewed in the manufacturing realm as an activity that comes into focus only when profitability begins to drop. However, cost control is, indeed, proactive, and it requires only one discipline to do it: production posting.  Production posting involves capturing what happened on the shop floor in terms of labour input, materials…
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The Hidden Cost of Managing Manufacturing with Spreadsheets

The Hidden Cost of Managing Manufacturing with Spreadsheets 

During the first years of your manufacturing company, a spreadsheet is the answer. It is cheap, adaptable, and accessible. With only ten SKUs and just a few orders to deal with, Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets is the best way to keep tabs on your inventory. But with growing business, that same…
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Scaling Production Without Increasing Administrative Work

Scaling Production Without Increasing Administrative Work 

Growth is key in the manufacturing industry. You always want to have more orders, bigger customers, and greater production capacity. For some manufacturing businesses, though, increasing production can lead to a problem that nobody wants increased administrative work.  It is often believed that doubling your production rate will automatically mean you will…
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