Articles Written By: Randy Flamm

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November 1, 2016

OEE: How to Calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) takes the three sources of manufacturing productivity loss: Availability, Performance and Quality, and creates metrics that provide a consistent way to…

December 20, 2012

IQMS New Development for 2013 – Inventory Transaction Alert System

The IQMS Development and Automation staff are working on some exciting new development projects for 2013, over and above the hundreds of software enhancement requests…

November 8, 2012

MES and ERP Software Integration

Many of our longtime managers at IQMS dislike the word "integration" in regards to our ERP product line. They feel that the word integration has…

September 6, 2012

Medical Validation and ERP Updates – A Case for Automation

All medical device manufacturers who use software in the production of medical devices (including manufacturing ERP systems) must validate the use of the software. The…

June 30, 2011

Shop Floor Automation – Manufacturing ERP’s Next Frontier

IQMS was in the business of manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software long before it became known as ERP. In the 22 years that I have been in…

April 14, 2011

Mobile Application Software for the Manufacturing Shop Floor

I grew up in the 60s and I don’t mind admitting that I really liked the Star Trek series. It was about the future, it had adventure…

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