Author: Command Alkon
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“How to Be A Great Player/Coach,” from Command Alkon CEO Martin Willoughby
Perhaps the best player-coach of all time was Bill Russell. Russell won nine NBA championships for the Boston Celtics as a player before winning two more as a player-coach. He is one of five enshrined in the NBA Hall of Fame as both a player and as a coach. When head coach Red Auerbach stepped…
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Predictable Inventory Controls Start Here
No matter where you’re located, in this business, running out of materials is simply not an option. Intended as a cautionary “keep the bins full” philosophy, generations of suppliers have leaned into ordering more heavy materials than they need so that they’re prepared for any unexpected waste. After all, when your reputation relies on dependability,…
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What is the Cost of Less Than Optimum Concrete Batching System/Plant Performance?
Of the dozens of factors that affect the profitability of a ready-mix producer, the cost of lost time and material are among the hardest to quantify. Production reports out of the plant automation systems (or dispatch systems) show the average material tolerance from the concrete batching operations. Any over or underweight batches (and their associated costs or savings) are…
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Navigating the Digital Path
You have decided to upgrade and migrate away from your legacy system. What’s the digital path to do so? This digital transformation may seem daunting, but it is easier than you think. A well-managed plan in collaboration with product experts from Command Alkon Incorporated (CAI) paves the way to successful implementation. CAI assists their customers…
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AI-Enhanced Concrete Batching
Al enhanced concrete batching Someone once told me that if I forecasted the weather for tomorrow to be the same as today, I’d be at least as accurate as the meteorologist on TV. True or not, we know accurately predicting the future is difficult. People store memories of challenges and experiences then based on recollection…
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Scheduling Concrete Order Best Practices & The Power of The Minute
In the mid 2000s, we were a company who was not particularly focused on harnessing new technologies. We wanted to direct our capital to purchase additional trucks and plants. Our family-owned ready-mix business had grown to over 75 trucks across four plants, surpassing 500,000+ cy per year. The local building boom, consisting of big box warehouses…
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Command Cloud: Innovación y escalabilidad en materiales de construcción
Command Alkon, el proveedor líder de software y soluciones para la industria de materiales de construcción se enorgullece de presentar su plataforma de última generación Command Cloud diseñada para impulsar la excelencia operativa y facilitar la toma de decisiones orientada por datos y asistida por IA en los mercados de América Central, América del Sur…
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Thoughts About Improving Small Load Batching Performance
This month continues discussion about familiar and frustrating challenges as concrete producers. Next month we’ll return to new and exciting technologies! Mechanicals Matter If you read my last blog, this header will seem familiar. It bears repeating that no existing software in the world, even those supplemented with artificial intelligence.(AI1) can generate consistent or predictable results…
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Concrete Production’s Newest Recruitment X Factor
Now making their way across industries of all kinds, AI-powered solutions are revealing new levels of efficiency with faster throughput, enhanced accuracy, waste reduction, and more. While operational business strategies rapidly develop alongside this new technology, many employers are leveraging these same solutions as motivation for their teams. In an ongoing survey conducted by Gallup,…
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Agilización de la logística = Grandes oportunidades de mejora para sus clientes y su reputación
Con una gran cantidad de crecimiento de la infraestructura, nos vemos en la necesidad de hacer más con menos. Las empresas de agregados que tienen sistemas inteligentes y redes troncales tecnológicas han acumulado beneficios de la capacidad de tomar decisiones inteligentes basadas en datos. Estas empresas también están viendo rendimientos sustanciales de la inversión a…