Poor job quoting processes often consumes any competitive advantage according to Thomas R. Cutler in the recent article published in Automation Media magazine. Approximately 55 percent of all North American manufacturers are ETO, yet very few know it. Due to customer demand for customization there has been a 20 percent increase in ETO manufacturing over the past twelve months. These are custom manufacturers rather than repetitive manufacturers.
Without abandoning the notion of continuous process improvement, Theory of Constraints (ToC) would advise where the most value-added process can be captured in the industrial operation. The most immediate and critical impact on the bottom-line can be found in the sales process.
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About TR Cutler, Inc.
Thomas R. Cutler is the President and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based, TR Cutler, Inc., (www.trcutlerinc.com), the largest manufacturing communication firm worldwide with four dozen industry experts and thought leaders on staff. Cutler is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the founding of the Manufacturing Media Consortium, which now has more than 6,000 global members including journalists, editors, publishers, and economists, worldwide writing about trends, industrial data, manufacturing case studies, material handling profiles, and robotics feature articles. He maintains extraordinary relationships with clients, journalists, editors, economists, trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide and has become a key resource for those writing about the manufacturing sector. Cutler is passionate about expanding the coverage and importance of the manufacturing media coverage.
The hot topics impacting the industrial and distribution sector for 2019 include robotics, Industry 4.0, Big Data, IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), Mobile technology solutions, inventory control, procurement solutions, warehouse solutions at the distribution, warehouse, and 3PL levels. Manufacturing material flow, Fork Truck Free migration, global real-time actionable data, along with lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints continue to capture attention. Cutler is particularly focused on the growing role of Women in Manufacturing (at the C-Suite and on the plant floor). Cutler expects the interaction of manufacturing, logistics, last mile delivery issues to permeate the media conversation over the next year.
Cutler has authored more than 6,000 articles for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, industrial publications, and business journals each published in leading monthly trade magazines, B2B periodicals, blogs, and marquis publications globally. Cutler is the most published freelance industrial journalist worldwide, and nearly 4000 industry leaders follow Cutler on Twitter daily at @ThomasRCutler.
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