Key Steps to Workflow Improvement in Maintenance
There are two things are essential to product quality and customer satisfaction: employees’ work and your equipment’s performance.
Are Cobots Part of Your Plant’s Future?
Will robotic automation be part of your company’s transformation? If your assembly operations are light, cobots should be part of its future.
What is Lean and Continuous Improvement?
It is listening intently to employees’ ideas. Converting them into doable alternatives. Then, helping everyone own the new process and move as a team.
Do’s and Don’ts for Making Process Improvements that Stick
What’s holding your maintenance organization back from making process improvements? The dos and don’ts for organizations that want to implement change.
Single Part or Multiple Part Operations
The optimal manufacturing setup for each product line drives the case for single part operations versus multiple parts or gang operations.
How to Make Your Plant Reliable
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is the most cost-effective method your plant can use to develop an appropriate maintenance strategy with takt time.
The ‘Quick & Dirty’ About OEE
Much has been written about Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) but it is too useful not to revisit some of the key points.
What’s Your Maintenance Strategy?
What’s Your Maintenance Strategy? Maintenance strategy doesn’t enter our non-technical brains unless it directly affects our productivity and well-being.
How to Set Up a Lean Factory That Works
Lean manufacturers have a leg up on speeding products to market, reducing costs and keeping customers happy. In this overview, I’ll share how to engineer, set up and manage the