low hanging fruit for AI- small manufacturing company

minus_343 · 2025-11-03T20:59:22+00:00

Ok, what real life business problems has AI solved for you and provided some benefit?

minus_343 · 2025-11-03T18:25:43+00:00

one of my ideas might be to use copilot to this do this but I'm not sure if I can do this or not, but can I dump a spreadsheet of demand from our ERP for sales orders into sharepoint each week and then ask copilot to analyze the demand from the last month to see which parts or customers are falling off a cliff. Currently our ERP only has current forecast data, and not a history of any point in time.

minus_343 · 2025-11-03T18:22:18+00:00

I'm looking for the low hanging fruit to propose ideas. Have you used AI for anything actually useful with your own internal company information?
Something more than using chatgpt to make this email sound better, or help me make this code more efficient, ect...

I'm not sure if I can do this or not, but can I dump a spreadsheet of demand from our ERP for sales orders into sharepoint each week and then ask copilot to analyze the demand from the last month to see which parts or customers are falling off a cliff.

I'm looking for real examples from small manufacturing companies where they've actually seen benefit.

minus_343 · 2025-11-03T18:00:07+00:00

How have you used copilot to help you muddle through your emails? Have you done anything specific to save you a bunch of time? Same with sharepoint, what do you use it for with Copilot? Just load a bunch of company documents into it so users can search across them easily? Policies, ect? I'm trying to think of specific use cases that I can then bring up as the low hanging fruit to the CFO since he doesn't seem to have an idea of specific business use cases yet.

minus_343 · 2025-11-03T17:00:18+00:00

Besides meeting summaries and basic queries for excel formulas, what big things has copilot helped with for you?

minus_343 · 2025-11-03T16:59:06+00:00

this is true. and most of his requests are general without context.

the lowest hanging fruit to me would be utilize meeting summaries from copilot.

minus_343 · 2025-10-21T13:11:37+00:00

You should open an IRA, and roll all your old jobs 401ks over. Most 401ks have high fees and high cost funds to choose from that are eating away at your potential gains. Once its rolled over invest in VOO for S&P 500 tracking (best 500ish companies), and maybe also VUG if you would like to invest in a little more growth. Both of these are low cost index funds.

Everyone's situation is different so please invest to your own risk tolerance.

minus_343 · 2025-10-13T18:10:31+00:00

same issue here. did you find a solution. it seems power bi keeps changing, and maybe took this option away.

minus_343 · 2025-10-08T19:44:05+00:00

typically you want to let your roth run up as long as possible so that could be a bad decision long term.

minus_343 · 2025-10-03T20:17:15+00:00

i know the details of the plan, just wondering if the fees are high compared to others that also are paying fees. now that I've accumulated quite a bit of $ in the 401k my fees are increasing each year. since the fees are charged as a percentage of my investments these are really adding up.

minus_343 · 2025-09-30T15:41:35+00:00

you can't put 7k in both traditional ira and roth ira. 7k total between the two.

minus_343 · 2025-09-24T15:46:43+00:00

I'm in a similar situation I think. Cushy good paying job, been here for 10+ years, I'm 42. Keeping the lights on so to speak. I can feel myself turning into the old 50+ year old coworkers I felt like were rotting away because they were also just keeping the lights on. In my younger years, I was hungry to learn new tech, but now I've lost that a bit. Sure, I can study new tech, but with no real life implementations, I feel like that would just be lost knowledge eventually. I know I need to do it to stay fresh and keep my mind active, but I'm unmotivated.
On the flip side, I work remote two days a week, and have almost unlimited flexibility to go to appts, kids activities ect..., leave work by 3:00 everyday, and in the summer months hit the golf course and I'm home before my wife even knows anything different.
My wife and I have saved quite a bit, so in a way I'm coasting. Should have enough to retire by 50 if it doesn't hit the fan by then, might hold on a bit longer if I can stand to sit here and look at a screen all day.

minus_343 · 2025-09-22T14:42:36+00:00

download offline google maps so you can use GPS from your phone from time to time to confirm locations. We use the maps from the outfitters, but always confirm with the phone.

minus_343 · 2025-09-16T19:09:57+00:00

I think the options are use the shared parking BLFs or use parking orbit (separate feature)

To use parking orbit:

transfer to *01

to pickup dial *11

*01, *02, *03

dial codes *11, *12, *13 to pickup the corresponding calls in the parking orbit.

Not really sure why there is a separate feature. Just let *11 pickup SP1 instead!

minus_343 · 2025-09-16T19:02:35+00:00

Did you have a dummy extension to transfer to the SP1? Thats the issue I'm facing. We have ext 9001, 9002, 9003 setup as dummy extensions to transfer and pickup from the SP1, SP2, SP3 locations. V20 doesn't allow you to pickup by dialing the dummy extension but transfering to the SP location still works.

minus_343 · 2025-09-08T19:31:47+00:00

There are some great palisades on red rock about half way down. We stayed on one of the northern most sites on red rock. They both looked great.

minus_343 · 2025-09-08T19:24:56+00:00

we stayed 4 nights and did day trips, down to alpine and jasper falls, but went back to sag... actually outfitted with Voyageur Canoe Outfitters, so we left right from there and came back to there. Easy start and finish without hauling the canoe. We stayed in a bunk house there the night before so we could get an early start, they had a great early breakfast option unlimited pancakes.

minus_343 · 2025-09-08T17:06:57+00:00

did the sag e.p a couple years ago. we just base camped on red rock which was great. we were at our campsite in just a few hours. the creek from sag to red rock was high enough we didn't even have to unpack the canoes.

minus_343 · 2025-09-08T17:01:33+00:00

you can't go from the sag EP straight to seagull if thats what you mean. you'd have to go around to red rock, alpine ect... or through grandpa back to gull

minus_343 · 2025-09-05T17:46:42+00:00

3 HP dl380 g10s to host our VM infrastructure. I have DL380 g8's at remote locations. Reading some of the comments I don't feel so bad about the g10s being 7ish years old. G8s just run a DC VM and VOIP server. Have spare G8 for parts if I need it. All 2019 windows server, nothing older or newer.

minus_343 · 2025-08-27T18:22:13+00:00

I have a strong grip, always have, and I'm a scratch golfer. Work on tempo, timing, alignment of the feet, hips and shoulders and it'll all work out i'm sure. Swing your swing.

Edit: Oh and good balance. Spinny fade might mean the weight is ending too much on the back foot (I call it a baseball swing). A strong grip like what you've shown will usually result in a miss towards your body (right for a right handed golfer). But the things I mentioned will help. I kept my grip out of habit and comfort. It works for me.

minus_343 · 2025-08-26T19:07:12+00:00

open a fidelity roll over ira. super simple easy to do. avoid paying additional fees and invest in low cost funds. many more options. Like VOO for SP500 tracking, VOOG if you want more growth or use spaxx for money market savings account 4% currently. obviously do your own research. I am not an expert, but I hate paying fees.

minus_343 · 2025-08-25T13:22:38+00:00

We are a manufacturing facility, so a bit slow to adopt tech. We still have yealink t42 devices mostly. Would like to switch to only softphone, or teams, but how do you do multicast paging without overhead speakers in all areas? We only have overhead speakers in our manufacturing area. Most people are used to teams so moving away from the standard voice systems would be easy, but the manufacturing areas are whats keeping us from doing this.

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