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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. This means this methodology greatly influences how your team operates and might even require you to make hiring decisions based on it. What Is Kanban?

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Cost of Production: Types of Production Costs

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The best things in life are free, but manufacturing goods cost money. Cost of production reflects all the costs that a business pays that are associated with manufacturing a product or providing a service. Some costs of production are labor, raw materials, consumable manufacturing supplies and overhead.

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What Is a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) In Project Management?

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Manufacturing a product or constructing a building is a complicated process, which in turn makes determining the price for that product equally difficult to discern. Businesses can’t influence the latter but can have some influence on the former, which includes labor, raw materials and subcontracting.

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Henry Gantt’s Biography & Role in Gantt Chart History

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During this time he was writing articles, such as “A Bonus System of Rewarding Labor” and “A Graphical Daily Balance in Manufacture” for various trade magazines. Later he published Work, Wages and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living (1910), Industrial Leadership (1916) and Organizing for Work (1919).

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How Big Data Can Give Project Managers The Edge In Manufacturing

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Now, manufacturing is getting up-to-speed as companies recognize the value in the vast amounts of data that they create and hold. Manufacturers across a range of industries now have the capability to take previously isolated data sets, aggregate and analyze them to reveal important insights. How Project Managers Can Play A Role.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

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To compile this list, we dug through Amazon listings, forums, blogs, and review websites to identify the best project management books specifically for those in the manufacturing and engineering industries. While this book focuses on megaprojects, many of the insights can be applied to engineering and manufacturing projects of any size.

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5 Project Management Trends for Manufacturing Teams to Watch in 2017

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As always, market forces continue to influence how businesses manage their projects. While IoT made our 2016 project management trends list , the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is going to hold sway over manufacturing project teams in 2017 and well beyond. The need for an IIoT strategy across the manufacturing floor.