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Today's manufacturing and mining businesses are high paced complex environments. Breakdowns occur, maintenance and production needs to be balanced and narrowing margins demand focus on reducing the unit cost of production. Many approaches such as Lean, 6 Sigma have been adopted but fail to reach full potential due to the lack of accurate information and visibility of the production process; traceability, utility costs, and maintenance and labour costs, asset utilisation are just some of the challenges faced. With the right information complexity can be turned to clarity and resources can be directed to drive meaningful improvements resulting in significant reduction in the production costs that eat into your profits. While reducing manufacturing costs automation also introduces risks to safety and productivity. The recent King III commission report highlights the need for IT Governance and in automated manufacturing business this extends to devices and software used on the plant floor. AcuSYS and our partners are focused on providing value priced solutions that through software and services help business address these challenges.
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CFOs are changing their tune on tech.
WCM (World-Class Manufacturing) methodology is being used by all Fiat Group companies that have manufacturing production processes. This methodology has been identified as key in efforts to achieve sustainability and enhancing competitiveness.
The South African manufacturing sector has been in a state of decline for more than a decade (Dube, Hausmann and Rodrik, 2007). Whilst it is arguable that the decline is structural in nature, recently it has become popular to appeal to policy makers to intervene in foreign exchange markets to bring about a weakening in the Rand against the currencies of South Africa’s major trading partners. It is argued by these advocates of ‘Rand weakness’ that a depreciation in the Rand will provide relief to the domestic manufacturing sector which has been under acute pressure since 2008.
