Industrial methods and choosing an ERP
Lean, SMED, MRP, traceability, ISO 9001: guides to understand a method before configuring it in an ERP.
Each guide explains a method before configuring it in the ERP, based on what the software actually records.
17 guides
Production
Lean or Six Sigma: is your problem lead time or variation?
Two methods, two enemies: waste and variation. Confusing them means applying the wrong remedy — and that is where most programmes fail.
Production
SMED: what your changeovers really cost you
Separating internal from external work recovers a third of the downtime without buying anything. The SMED method, its four steps, and where it does not pay.
9 min read12 August 2026
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Production
CMMS or built-in maintenance module: where the line really falls
Separate maintenance software is justified in specific cases, and costs dearly in all the others. The criteria that decide, and what the interface between the two really costs.
9 min read6 August 2026
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Production
Cycle counting: putting an end to the annual production shutdown
Counting everything, once a year, for two days, for a gap you can no longer explain. Counting by turnover class gives a truer stock without ever closing the shop.
8 min read6 August 2026
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Architecture
Industrial subcontracting: managing what leaves the shop
Material shipped to a partner, invisible work in progress, unchecked returns: subcontracting is the blind spot of most systems. How to make it traceable and accountable.
9 min read6 August 2026
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Standards
ERP and ISO 9001: facing your quality audit without dreading traceability
What an auditor really asks for, and how a properly configured ERP turns a week of document rebuilding into a few searches.
8 min read5 August 2026
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Production
Industrial cost price: calculating it without going wrong
Material, labour, machine, overheads, scrap: a full breakdown of the cost price and the mistakes that lead to selling at a loss unnoticed.
10 min read3 August 2026
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Architecture
ERP data migration: the step that decides the project's success
Most ERP go-lives that go wrong don't fail on the software, but on the quality of the migrated data. A method for not importing your problems.
8 min read31 July 2026
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Architecture
How to choose an industrial ERP: the 7-step method
Three-hundred-criterion grids, seductive demos, promises of total coverage: how to decide on verifiable elements rather than on an impression.
9 min read30 July 2026
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Innovation
Sustainable, Circular Industry: pairing the ERP with profitability and carbon control
How an ERP traces the carbon footprint (Scope 3) while making recycling and refurbishment financially viable.
9 min read28 July 2026
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Architecture
Agri-Equipment & Special Machines: the Engineering-to-Order (ETO) ERP
Endless design cycles, guesswork quotes, blown budgets: take back control of special-machine projects.
7 min read7 July 2026
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Production
Industrial Production Management: how an ERP aligns your shop floors and your margins
OEE, MES and real-time control: how an information system secures competitiveness.
5 min read9 June 2026
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Design
ERP for Electrical Engineering: driving switchboard and equipment manufacturing
Vast bills of materials, continuous engineering revisions and global sourcing: a look at a trade at a crossroads.
6 min read13 May 2026
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Architecture
MRP, MRP II and ERP: understanding the evolution of industrial planning
How did we move from a simple net-requirements calculation (MRP) to global, intelligent orchestration systems (ERP)?
10 min read2 April 2026
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Production
ERP for Plastics Processing: driving injection, thermoforming and tooling management
The technical specifics of plastics processing: complex tooling, material recipes and sprue recycling built into the ERP.
6 min read11 March 2026
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Standards
ERP for Electronics Manufacturing: critical components and flawless traceability
In a market of volatile components, building electronic boards demands absolute upstream and downstream traceability.
8 min read3 February 2026
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Production
ERP for Wood & Industrial Joinery: from bespoke design to production control
Industrialising the bespoke demands perfect synergy. See how a specialised ERP transforms the wood and joinery sector.
7 min read14 January 2026
AVIA ERP editorial team
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