White Papers

Here are some of the white papers (in Adobe PDF format) that have been written by Dr. Peter Green who serves as the Technical Director of KnarrTek Inc .

Milramco LLC. owns the copyright to these papers. Please do not republish these white papers without permission from Milramco LLC (partner-support@Milramco.com). 

They may, however, be freely disseminated within educational, government, and industrial organizations for internal educational and information use only.

It is acceptable to publish a few hundred word synopsis with a direct link to the papers, whose links are given below:

Most Recent White Papers

• Use of Decision Support Systems to Assist with Materials Management in Construction and Engineering Projects (October 16, 2021)
• What are Decision Support Systems for Industrial Operations Management? (September 3, 2021)
• Will Robots Kill All the Remaining Manufacturing Jobs in the USA? (August 8, 2021)
• Adding Real-Time Barcode Work-in-Process Tracking to your existing ERP and Accounting System (May 23, 2021)
• The True Cost of Doing Nothing - why using paper forms rather than barcode tracking is no longer justifiable (April 4, 2021)

Decision Support Systems

• Use of  Decision Support Systems to Assist with Materials Management in Construction and Engineering Projects (October 16, 2021)
• What are Decision Support Systems for Industrial Operations Management?
  (September 3, 2021)

Inventory Tracking

• Keeping the Books Straight when Receiving and Tracking Raw Materials Inventory(May 27, 2020)
• Implementing Barcode Tracking Systems in Manufacturing Plants and Industrial Warehouses (March 10, 2021)
• Did the Pandemic Break Your Supply Chain? Is it time for Supply Networks instead of Supply Chains? (March 5, 2020)
• Should you Replace Your Warehouse Management System with the latest License-Plate Number Container Tracking Technology? (February 9, 2020)
• A Better way to Track Inventory - Use License-Plate Container Tracking Barcodes(January 5, 2020)
• A Quick Way to Take Year-End Inventory (December 5, 2019)
• Tracking Sheets, Rolls, and Lengths of Material (November 10, 2017)
• Inventory Tracking is Easy, Isn't It? (May 30, 2017)
• Preventing Inventory Errors (8 February 2012; updated and re-released March 30, 2020)

Manufacturing

• Will Robots Kill All the Remaining Manufacturing Jobs in the USA? (August 8, 2021)
• Adding Real-Time Barcode Work-in-Process Tracking to your existing ERP and Accounting System (May 23, 2021)
• The True Cost of Doing Nothing -why using paper forms rather than barcode tracking is no longer justifiable (April 4, 2021)
• Eight Ways Manufacturers can Cut Costs (August 10, 2020)
• Technology Solutions for Distributed Operations Management (April 25 , 2020)
• The Amazon Effect on Scheduling Quick-Turn On-Demand Manufacturing Operations (September 19, 2018)*
• Using Technology to Unleash Profitable Growth of a Manufacturing Enterprise (June 4, 2018)
• Solving the Parts Number Explosion Problem for Make-to-Order Manufacturers(February 15, 2017)
• The 5 Levels of Intelligent Manufacturing Operations Management (September 15, 2016; updated and re-released March 30, 2020)
• Using Technology to Enable the Rapid Growth of Make-to-Order Manufacturing Businesses (18 January 2016)

Technology and Artificial Intelligence

• Failure to Excel in the Cloud; a cautionary tale. (January 22, 2021)
• Text Message and Email Alerts, the key to remotely managing manufacturing operations (December 9, 2020)
• How to Implement a Low-Cost Manufacturing ERP System with a Million Dollar Performance (September 20, 2020)
• Interfacing Anarchy in the Shop (October 19, 2020)
• Using Computer Technology to Help Prevent the Spread of Covid19 in a Manufacturing Operation (April 6, 2020)

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