As manufacturers strive to meet customer expectations and remain competitive in today's global economy, they must consistently produce high-quality products. However, achieving this goal can be challenging.

Manufacturers can prevent backorders and keep their inventory on track by predicting customer demand, otherwise known as using predictive analytics.

The cloud is everywhere, and its scope is expanding. It’s an exciting and perfect time to adopt the cloud for all its benefits; improved agility and collaboration, a helpful boost with innovations, accelerated time to value and much more. Did you know you can move your quality initiatives into the cloud too?

Continuous improvement programs are essential for growth and success. However, implementing them requires more than just tools and technology.

In situations where resources are limited to gathering real data would be too expensive or impractical, Monte Carlo simulations can help forecast results and probabilities. 

Testing potential improvements can get complicated when working with multiple suppliers in different steps of a process. Using a Monte Carlo Simulation can help illuminate the results you’d like to see.

Continuous improvement is essential for business success. These five principles of CI will help you ensure that the improvements you’re striving for are constant, improve all areas of your organization, and deliver value to your customer.

SharePoint is a great tool for managing and collaborating on documents and as an intranet to disseminate information across the company. In fact, we use it at Minitab for those exact purposes.