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The Difference Between ERP, MES, MOM and Material Ledger

by thinkiq | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog

Evolution is quite a thing to ponder. About 85 million years ago, primates diverged from other mammals, after which over a period of about 20 million years and several diverging families, subfamilies, tribes, and genera, the human form we know today evolved. Evolution...

Becoming A Food Loss, Waste Reduction Champion

by thinkiq | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog

Food waste prevention isn’t just best practice in the supply chain, it’s of growing concern on a national and global level. To wit, Hellmann’s mayonnaise (or Best Foods as it’s known west of the Rockies, and that of Unilever) threw its hat into the prestigious Super...

How To Improve Yield In Manufacturing: Moving From Inside The Plant To The Entire Supply Chain

by thinkiq | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog

In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. Anytime a material balance calculation is done across a manufacturing plant, for example in food production, it may be a mystery why the “gazintas” do not match the “goesoutas”,...

Welcome To The New And Improved ThinkIQ.com

by thinkiq | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog

We wanted to give you more reasons to come back to thinkiq.com frequently, so we have revamped and relaunched our website. In addition to the latest ThinkIQ offerings for Continuous Intelligence for Manufacturers, contextualizing data — both in-plant and across your...

Why Intelligent Farm-To-Fork Material Flow Visibility Is Essential

by thinkiq | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog

Remember when we used to buy all our computer software from brick-and-mortar stores? You might have driven to the mall and strolled into an Egghead Software or Software Etc to buy the latest Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, or MacPaint. Of course, that...