Month: May 2016

Your manufacturing facility is running smoothly. Customers are happy and you are delivering a quality part on-time, every time. Then it happens. You can literally hear it happen on the shop floor and everything comes to a crashing halt. The months and years of good equity you built up with your customers goes away because…

The most successful manufacturers all have a secret and the story typically starts with, “we weren’t always this great.” At some point there was a meeting with the best employees and the spirit of the conversation talked about being great, good enough isn’t good enough anymore, being average won’t win new business. Our customers should…

These famous words of Benjamin Franklin ring true in the manufacturing world. There are many ways you can “prepare” in manufacturing, and one of those ways is estimating. Many of the unsung heroes in a manufacturing business are the production, scheduling, purchasing, and quoting employees that are responsible for estimating projects. These unsung heroes have…

Global Shop Solutions has always striven to deliver timely technical support, a goal that most of our customers agree we deliver on. But when we released our latest system update in early 2015, the number of service calls dramatically escalated due to the number of customers upgrading the various products included in the release (as…

Aerospace, defense, medical, oh my. You don’t have to tell me twice about the brilliant manufacturing ideas and people in the Northeast portion of the United States. This was the first year Global Shop Solutions exhibited at the MFG4 conference held at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and it certainly won’t be the…

What if you could easily see every component of what it costs to manufacture every product you make? Now you can, with our revolutionary application, FLOOOM. Our customers have been asking for a way to breakdown individual costs on each and every product they make, so we have created the ultimate solution. Zoom in on…

If you own a TV or are a subscriber of Netflix, chances are you have heard of the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black (OITNB). Based on a true story, the show sheds light on the life of a minimum security women’s prison in Connecticut. Aside from the crude humor and drama, OITNB…

Nobody likes to get constant error messages on their main server, especially when the errors disrupt critical business processes. But for Ken House, Global Shop Solutions Administrator for PIN, the daily annoyance led to a software change that not only solved the problem but improved workflow. A custom manufacturer of fixtures and retail display systems,…