Nordson DAGE, a division of Nordson Corporation, is a supplier in the Semiconductor and PCBA electronics markets with its award winning portfolio of Bondtester and X-ray inspection systems for destructive and non-destructive mechanical testing and inspection of electronic components.
Manufacturing Software, ERP, MRP
Manufacturing software systems are important tools for the automation and management of production processes. A wide range of manufacturing companies covering many different vertical sectors rely on manufacturing software to better manage the sourcing and use of material or parts quantities, scheduled production timelines, inventory management and the planning for future order demand. One commonly deployed example of a manufacturing software system is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, designed to better manage information concerning orders and materials, finance, Customer Relationship Management etc.over the whole organisation.
Advanced Computer Software's finance software ranked fourth in UK by Gartner's market share report
Apr 24, 2014
Advanced Computer Software Group's (Advanced's) financial management software (FMS) has been ranked as having the fourth largest market share in the UK by analyst firm Gartner.
Laidlaw builds for the future with Exel EFACS E/8
Apr 24, 2014
The Laidlaw Interiors Group today generates sales of £130 million and employs around 1500 people in 35 locations across the UK and overseas.
C24 in top one per cent after achieving Hosting Gold status
Apr 24, 2014
Global hosting managed service provider C24 has distinguished itself within the top one per cent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem after attaining Gold Hosting competency.
Infor enters into joint collaboration with Red Hat and EnterpriseDB
Apr 17, 2014
Infor has announced a joint collaboration with Red Hat, Inc., provider of open source solutions, and EnterpriseDB, the PostgreSQL database company, to make Infor LN ERP available on a total open technology stack.
Linecross partners with Exel for future growth
Apr 17, 2014
From humble origins in 1968, Linecross has grown to become a £16 million turnover supplier of innovative, high-quality engineered polymer solutions to a diverse range of international industries.
HANA in demand
Apr 17, 2014
HANA is a bit of a big deal in the world of technology, with innovators and early adopters across the world falling head over heels for the game changing solution; implementing HANA to get their businesses ahead of the herd and as a result quickly receiving the benefits of a platform that is quite literally transforming data processing forever.
Exel EFACS helps Bennett Opie get it right first time, every time
Apr 10, 2014
Bennett Opie has grown from humble origins in 1880 to a £12 million turnover, leading manufacturer of quality pickles and preserves that are enjoyed by families in the UK and across the world.
Newall takes its EFACS ERP system to the next level
Mar 27, 2014
When it came to updating its long-serving EFACS Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system from Exel Computer Systems, high-tech company, Newall, chose to invest in the latest version of EFACS – but not for the reasons you might expect.
Eurac achieves real-time benefits with Logi Analytics
Mar 20, 2014
Eurac is a leading international brake disc manufacturer, and has specialised in the casting, machining and distribution of brake discs to the automotive industry for over 50 years.
Manufacturing software systems
Manufacturing software systems provide the automation and computational support for complex manufacturing processes. Manufacturing companies leverage manufacturing software systems to carefully manage the timing, types and quantities of materials they purchase in order to ensure that they are able to meet current and future customer demand while at the same time achieving the lowest possible cost and inventory accumulation.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organisation and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.
Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) addresses operational planning in units, financial planning, and has a simulation capability to answer "what-if" questions and extension of closed-loop MRP.
CRM or Customer Relationship Management concerns the relationship between an organisation and its customers. The scope of CRM which can vary drastically as it can be used by management, salespeople, people providing service, and even customers could directly access information to find out information.
Cloud computing can be defined as the set of hardware, networks, storage, services, and interfaces that combine to deliver aspects of computing as a service. Cloud services include the delivery of software, infrastructure, and storage over the Internet and is based on user demand. Cloud Computing is the latest stage in the Internet's evolution, providing the means through which everything , from computing power to computing infrastructure, applications, business can be delivered to you as a service wherever and whenever you need.
Cloud computing has some essential characteristics: scalability depending on requirements, offers a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, eliminates the need for on-site personnel to maintain computer equipment. No up-front CAPEX (capital expenditure) required, as billing is a pay-as-you-go model, access to the very latest application programming interfaces (APIs).
SaaS (software as a service) is a type of cloud computing delivering a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to conventional hosting. SaaS is emerging to provide service to all aspects of an organisation`s activities in the areas of Manufacturing, ERP, Demand Forecasting, Advanced Planning, S&OP, Supply Chain, Warehousing, Transport Management and HR (human resource).
Business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, processes and technologies that convert raw data into useful information for business purposes. BI can handle large amounts of information to help identify and develop new opportunities to gain market advantage over competitors. The amounts of data that are now being gathered as a result of because they are increasingly being gathered by a growing range of diverse and ubiquitous information-gathering devices.
These data sets become so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data. The current challenges of BIG DATA include the capture, storage, search and share capability, transfer, analysis, and visualisation. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. This data is big data.
It is estimated that the world's technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s. The challenge for large enterprises is determining who should own big data initiatives that straddle the entire organisation and how this data can be used as a source of revenue and to gain competitive advantage.
