Using Competency models to Drive Competitiveness and combat the manufacturing skills gap

January 15, 2017

Access to skilled workers is the number one driver for a country’s competitiveness. Yet U.S. manufacturers are challenged to find the talented workforce needed to fill good jobs currently available, much less in the future. Addressing this issue is critical because keeping the manufacturing engine going and growing is important for a strong U.S. economy.

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Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP Group) is a national electricity company which has been engaged in electricity production, transmission and distribution for more than one century, and with heat supply and gas distribution for the past few decades.

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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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Unleashing the potential growth with Data-driven Manufacturing

whitePaper | December 30, 2022

In recent years, Data and analytics capabilities have made a good progress resulting to numerous recent advancements. Majority of advancements have been made in various ways like development of more sophisticated algorithms, exponential growth in the volume of available data, and storage and computational power have uninterruptedly improved. The combination of these trends has led to business disruptions and fueling rapid technology advances.

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Manufacturing Forecast: Industry Insights From Industrial and Process Manufacturers

whitePaper | March 12, 2023

2022 was a challenging year, with rising inflation, supply chain vulnerability and labor shortages all impacting manufacturers. But which of these factors are companies most concerned by in 2023? And more importantly, how do manufacturers plan to address key challenges to continue growing their business?

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Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Environments

whitePaper | May 4, 2020

From cookies to cars, the manufacturing industry employs innovative technology to produce quality goods efficiently and get them to customers quickly. With the explosion of internet-connected devices and people who access them, cybersecurity is a higher priority than ever.

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Industry 5.0: The Next Industrial Revolution is People-Centric

whitePaper | November 14, 2022

In this white paper, we propose to discover what Industry 5.0 means to business owners today: how they can stay competitive with this new trend and how employees can benefit from it! Since the turn of the 2010s, the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, has been taking place. This refers to the automation of manufacturing companies and the integration of new technologies into production lines.

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You can’t fix what you can’t see on the factory floor

whitePaper | April 13, 2021

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is the channel of information from the shop floor to the top floor in a manufacturing organization. An Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) is often not enough to understand what is actually happening in the factory.

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Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP Group) is a national electricity company which has been engaged in electricity production, transmission and distribution for more than one century, and with heat supply and gas distribution for the past few decades.

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