ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Certain manufacturers use a recipe to combine materials to deliver products. This is called process manufacturing and is a production method that’s common when producing in bulk. To better understand process manufacturing, let’s first define the term and explore the different types of process manufacturing.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Manufacturing isn’t free. Being able to make accurate estimates of your manufacturing costs is critical to a company’s profitability and competitive advantage. Before work hits the production line, one must know how to calculate manufacturing cost. What Is Manufacturing Cost?

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AUGUST 30, 2023

People have been manufacturing goods for a very long time. From working with hands to using machinery, the advances in manufacturing aren’t isolated to tools but also methods. There is process manufacturing, which mixes ingredients, and the other major method is called discrete manufacturing.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Manufacturers make things, and how much they make is determined by demand and the supply of raw materials. First, let’s define what a production order is and why it’s so important to the manufacturing process. We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates. What Is a Production Order?

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APRIL 18, 2023

Production and manufacturing are often seen as the same thing. It’s important to understand the differences, especially if you’re involved in the manufacturing industry. Let’s explore production vs. manufacturing. We’ll also highlight many free templates that can help if you’re involved in production or manufacturing.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Manufacturing is all about production. Having that production work more efficiently will help manufacturers make more products and get those products to their customers faster. Cycle time is one of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that manufacturers use to measure the time they spend working on an item.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Manufacturing requires a lot of attention to detail and coordinating various moving parts to deliver the final product. In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. ProjectManager has dozens of free templates to download.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Manufacturing is based on delivering quality and quantity products to the market on schedule. Using manufacturing KPIs can help you determine strengths and weaknesses that can direct you toward improvements in all phases of your production cycle. What Are Manufacturing KPIs?

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Simply put, quality control in manufacturing is important. Quality control in manufacturing means your customers get what they’ve paid for. Let’s learn what quality control is, some of the methods to employ it and the roles of your team to ensure quality control in manufacturing is delivered. What Is Quality Control (QC)?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2024

Tactical planning is the practical counterpoint to strategic planning, which describes the overall direction of an organization. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. Let’s dive a bit deeper into the subject and explain how it differs from other types of planning, its benefits and more. What Is Tactical Planning?

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Manufacturing requires an understanding of production, its phases and when you need to assemble the product you’re building. A production flow chart is used to illustrate the manufacturing process of a product. Through this mapping process, manufacturers are able to build a more efficient ordering process for their production line.

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MAY 18, 2022

For as long as there has been manufacturing, people have been working to increase efficiency. Using technology to achieve efficiency is called advanced manufacturing. As technologies have become more innovative, advanced manufacturing technology also improves. What Is Advanced Manufacturing? Learn more.

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MAY 10, 2022

Contract manufacturing lets businesses, which may not have the resources or the funds to invest in heavy machinery, collaborate with other companies to fill orders. Let’s take a closer look at the types of contract manufacturing and some examples of how it works! What Is Contract Manufacturing? Types of Contract Manufacturing.

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MAY 18, 2022

For as long as there has been manufacturing, people have been working to increase efficiency. Using technology to achieve efficiency is called advanced manufacturing. As technologies have become more innovative, advanced manufacturing technology also improves. What Is Advanced Manufacturing? Learn more.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When governments or corporations make large investments, they don’t do so without serious planning. Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. If a company buys equipment for its manufacturing plant, then that’s a capital asset.

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MAY 23, 2024

Scheduling production, planning a budget and allocating resources only sets up manufacturing for success. One way to keep track of the manufacturing process is with a production report. To take advantage of this useful manufacturing tool means first understanding what production reporting and a production report are.

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MAY 22, 2024

Manufacturers have a handful of processes they use to make their products. There are five types of manufacturing processes: repetitive, discrete, job shop, continuous process and batch process manufacturing. First, we’ll define batch production and list examples of industries that use it to manufacture their products.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is called supply chain planning. Let’s take a closer look at supply chain planning and what it means for your business planning. What Is Supply Chain Planning? This includes adjusting the plan according to demand planning forecasts, while keeping in mind production capacity constraints and availability of materials.

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MAY 7, 2024

Whether a business is manufacturing or managing a warehouse, understanding demand management goes a long way to ensure that stock levels are always balanced with customer needs. Next, we’ll outline the demand management process to learn how to implement this planning methodology and how software can facilitate that process.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Manufacturing requires the right balance of many factors. One of the most important is the inventory—the materials and components needed for the manufacturing process. To this end, the manufacturing industry developed material requirements planning (MRP) to improve inventory efficiency. Learn More!

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APRIL 25, 2024

Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

That’s where a process called demand planning comes in. What Is Demand Planning? Demand planning is a cross-functional process that businesses use to meet customer demand while avoiding supply chain or inventory management disruptions. Create demand plans and execute them with ease with ProjectManager.— Learn More!

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MAY 8, 2024

This leads to the development of a capacity management plan that addresses the supply and demand of resources. Capacity management is the first step in project planning. Production Capacity Management: Seeks to manufacture the greatest amount of output in a production facility.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

For any company to profit from a product, there must be a strategic plan in place to produce just enough to meet that need. Aggregate planning is a technique to create an equilibrium between demand and capacity. Let’s take a look at what aggregate production planning is and some aggregate planning strategies.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Maintenance is an essential part of industries from construction to manufacturing. Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. Maintenance Scheduling Example Let’s look at a manufacturing facility for an example of maintenance scheduling.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that’s commonly used in project management as a means to visually represent the project plan and schedule over time. ProjectManager’s construction Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track projects in real time. On the left, there’s a typical spreadsheet.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Production capacity is an essential metric for manufacturers. It informs their production planning, helps them give their customers more accurate lead times and forecasts cash flow. To better understand production capacity, we’ll define the term and go into greater detail as to its importance in manufacturing.

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MAY 1, 2024

Achieving these goals requires ongoing planning and being able to quickly adapt to change. Each card can track planned versus actual progress, schedule resources and more to keep warehouse operations running smoothly. The software can be found in businesses working in retail space, distribution and manufacturing.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 26, 2022

When you work through manufacturing projects, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. Let’s look at some of the challenges specific to project teams working in the manufacturing industry—and how to solve these problems using project management practices and a dynamic, planning intelligence tool.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2024

Throughout the project, track the order to ensure it’s delivered on time and monitor costs and planned versus actual progress to stay on schedule. It starts with the customer purchasing a component that they need as a component for manufacturing the assemblage of a widget. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Manufacturers can’t just produce as many widgets as they want. A production budget is a document that calculates that number of units of a product will be manufactured to meet the estimated sales demand. Manufacturers make a production budget quarterly, though sometimes they will also be produced on a monthly basis. Learn more.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

How can manufacturers ensure the successful delivery of their complex projects under conditions of increasing uncertainty and a lack of required human resources? Read the article to gain insight into the specifics of manufacturing project management and learn useful recommendations on the effective orchestration of projects in the industry.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Products can be manufactured, but they don’t end up in a customer’s hands until they’ve been stored in a warehouse. It acts as a waystation, a part of the larger manufacturing and fulfillment processes. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help plan warehouse operations. Still, that work should be overseen by the business.

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MARCH 19, 2024

This process is especially important to companies that need a constant supply of a standard product, such as manufacturers. Setting a baseline captures your schedule and costs so you can track that planned effort against your actual effort in real time. This is commonly used in two industries: construction and manufacturing.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Manufacturing is an ongoing process. This is true in other industries where maintenance planning is essential to successful projects and productivity. What do we mean when we say maintenance planning? What Is Maintenance Planning? Learn more What’s the Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling?

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MAY 1, 2024

In fact, kanban has grown so much in popularity, there are now countless project management tools to help people plan and prioritize tasks on kanban boards, which are visual panels with virtual cards that can be moved around by the user to arrange orders of tasks or to-do items. Kanban is all the rage in project management.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

When a contractor bids on a project or a manufacturer takes on a job, they need to have an accurate forecast of the price for the project to make a profit, which is why job costing is so important. By looking back at past estimates and comparing them to actual costs, you can make more accurate estimates when planning for a similar project.

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