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SingaporeIn 1976, the Internet was being birthed in the minds of a few forward thinkers. At the same time, another forward thinker, Dick Alexander, decided to take his concept of software for the shop floor of manufacturers and make it a reality. That was the beginning of Global Shop Solutions. The oil industry in Texas…
Month: June 2016
I remember taking long road trips when I was a child and looking out the window to see these massive, monster machines performing incredible tasks – digging, cutting, pulling, moving – you name it, anything with a “ing” these machines can do. As an adult, I am still in awe at these machines and guess…
Take a deep breath and watch the warm summer sun rise over the horizon in Novi, Michigan, where it’s likely manufacturers are already hard at work building and molding the next big (and small) innovations in the automotive industry. One of the epicenters of American manufacturing, Michigan is home to some of the world’s best…
Plastic Man was a crook named Patrick “Eel” O’Brian. Orphaned at age 10 and forced to live on the streets, he fell into a life of crime. During a late-night heist at the Crawford Chemical Works Eel was shot in the shoulder and doused with a large drum of unidentified chemical liquid that had entered…
Global Shop Solutions has been helping small to medium-sized discrete manufacturers simplify their manufacturing™ for forty years. If you are creating a finished good from raw materials we can help your business grow and become more profitable. This isn’t marketing or advertising, it’s the truth. The fact is we have more customers willing to put…
The days are longer, the heat hotter, and community pools are full of families. Summer is knocking at our door, which means the conclusion of another Friday Features season is here. Over the course of 13 weeks, we took you on an insightful journey through our ERP system to help simplify your manufacturing. This season…
Long gone are the days of having a set-up machinist who can program at the machine and trouble shoot through a job. Today more than ever, machine shops are focusing on the technology and not necessarily on man labor. The better the equipment and software, the less man power. Is your machine shop prepared for…
A good sales team is always busy. Every one of your sales people will have a list of calls to make, emails to send and meetings to attend. Beyond that, there is the process of putting together quotes, closing the sale and follow up on their customers’ orders in process. In addition, management wants them…
Mexico City in May is beautiful. It is even better when you have an opportunity to help the manufacturing community of Mexico compete which is exactly what Daniel Carranco, Senior Consultant and Team lead, Global Shop Solutions did at Fabtech Mexico by presenting and leading one of the Educational Sessions for attendees. Daniel has been…
Have you ever underestimated the dollar amount it takes to manufacture your product? What about the time it takes on the shop floor to create those products? Your cost, schedule, and capacity should never be a gamble when it comes to rubber manufacturing. Lost orders only leave us with having to eat more costs and…