Lean’s Two Key Ingredients
The rising cost of doing business is challenging us all to find ways to work more efficiently. Lean programs usually begin with good intentions...
How to get OCM Right: Questions and Steps to Lasting Change
Is your business contemplating operational change? Most organizational change programs fail is they don’t take thoughts and emotions into account.
What’s Your Maintenance Strategy?
Maintenance strategy doesn’t enter our non-technical brains unless it directly affects our productivity and well-being. The 5 basic maintenance strategies.
How to Boost Manufacturing Productivity
Organizations that apply lean thinking to their operations and processes can realize significant and sustainable productivity benefits.
Best Practices in Preventive Maintenance: How One Company Did It
A pharmaceutical plant I worked with excelled with their preventive maintenance program. What were the key drivers of their success?
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.