A Guide to Digital Transformation for Manufacturers

The globalization of manufacturing puts immense downward pressure on production costs. Manufacturing companies face the challenge of generating productivity improvements in areas that are already relatively efficient. Additionally, providing after-sales services (installation, maintenance, repairs, extended warranties, or replacement parts) means that companies have even more systems to manage with an ever-growing pool of information to analyze.

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Layher Benelux

Layher is the world's largest producer and leading industry innovator of high quality, integrated, modular scaffolding systems. As the originator of the superior integrated Allround System Scaffold and the SpeedyScaf, European frame system, Layher has continued to pace the industry with product development and engineering advances for more than 60 years.

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Digital Twin Technology

whitePaper | November 30, 2022

The manufacturing and production sectors grapple with significant challenges arising from component failures, which often lead to disruptive operational interruptions. The economic impact of such disruptions can be profound, with every downtime minute potentially translating into thousands of dollars in lost revenue. While regular and planned maintenance can somehow mitigate these unplanned downtimes, they are unable to completely assure against potential component failures.

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How to effectively design, sell, and deliver configured products

whitePaper | August 12, 2020

For industrial machinery and equipment manufacturers, delivering personalized, unique products is the key to doing business in an increasingly competitive environment. Read this best practice guide to learn how you can increase sales and reduce costs through. Facilitated configuration, quoting, order management, and customer communication utilizing CPQ automation

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Using Digital Networks to Drive Business Transformation in Automotive and Manufacturing

whitePaper | November 12, 2019

Today’s economies are changing dramatically, driven by developing and emerging markets, innovative products and business models, and the accelerated rise of advanced technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Globally, the automotive and manufacturing segments have seen record-setting profits over the past decade-and also transformative change.

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Using Business Intelligence to Improve and Empower

whitePaper | March 2, 2020

Today's manufacturers have had to pivot quickly to adapt to demands brought on by COVID-19. Business Intelligence and analytics have played a vital role in providing the most successful manufacturers with insights necessary to find new ways to: Improve product and service quality.Higher levels of quality

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CLOSED-LOOP MANUFACTURING Integrating ERP, PLM and MES to Achieve Smart Manufacturing

whitePaper | October 1, 2021

Digitalization is changing how humans live and behave in many ways. It has a huge impact on almost all aspects of society. Just look at manufacturing. Factories have used digital applications for decades, but the impact of a new technological paradigm founded on the Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, and realized in the Industry 4.0 concept, is driving the world of manufacturing into a completely different playing field.

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Smart Manufacturing And How To Get Started

whitePaper | April 18, 2023

Deploying dedicated cellular-enabled industry 4.0 solutions can generate an operational cost savings ROI of 10x to 20x over 5 years. In aggregate, these solutions can generate 8.5% in Operational Cost Savings, which equates to US$200 to US$600 per sqm per year for a factory or industrial site.

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Layher Benelux

Layher is the world's largest producer and leading industry innovator of high quality, integrated, modular scaffolding systems. As the originator of the superior integrated Allround System Scaffold and the SpeedyScaf, European frame system, Layher has continued to pace the industry with product development and engineering advances for more than 60 years.

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