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The Automation Trap: Why a Faster Production Stage Doesn’t Make a Better Factory.

I read a lot – trade press, tech blogs, industry commentary and spend (far) too much time looking at the

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Agility in Manufacturing: The Weapon Most POD Shops Don’t Have.

I was in a conversation earlier this week with a potential customer – a well-run, successful print-on-demand operation – and

AI is changing how fast you can implement automation

Last week I wrote about a trade show conversation with someone stuck in year two of an automation implementation –

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Choosing an automation platform? The feature list is only half the project.

I was at a trade show recently talking to an attendee who’d been trying to replace their Production Management System,

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The gap between systems is where print on demand automation fails

I had a conversation a few weeks ago with an apparel deco business running a reasonably well known industry Apparel

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Embellishments Are Booming. But Can Your Workflow Keep Up?

WhatTheyThink published its Quarterly Edition 1, 2026 last week – themed around ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, with embellishments as the centrepiece.

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Next Level ERP: Where Managing Ends and Workflow Automation Begins

Over the last few months we’ve performed multiple implementations at sites running coincidentally either Cin7 or MS Dynamics 365. The

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SODA Summer 2025 survey – Diversification in (rapid) motion

At PRINTING United Expo 2025, Apparelist and PRINTING United Alliance shared results from the Summer 2025 State of the Decorated

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How hard is it to extend from Apparel to Merch in Print-On-Demand?

For decades, print-on-demand businesses have defined themselves narrowly by either 1) what they make or 2) how it’s made. For

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