Six Steps to Design a Preventive Maintenance Program
Preventive maintenance may seem a no-brainer, but if you make assumptions and cut corners, your results won’t match the effort. Follow these six steps and you’ll create an effective, efficient
How to Set Up a Lean Factory That Works – Part 2
How Can a Lean Factory Tollgate Process Work? Here is a sample tollgate path for re-working your facility’s layout – or setting it up from scratch.
Why Preventive Maintenance Fails (and how to fix it)
Why preventive maintenance fails. If developing a preventive-maintenance program is such no brainer, why doesn’t every company have one in place?
Reducing Production Time
A pharmaceutical plant I worked with excelled with their preventive maintenance program. What were the key drivers of their success?
Adapting Two Production Cells
DPA led two Kaizen events with a New England-based manufacturer of complex metal stampings and surgical cutters to adapt production cells.
Increasing Productivity – Nutmeg Container
Daniel Penn Associates helped Nutmeg Container increase productivity with workflow layout and total productive maintenance (TPM) support
Clean Room Staple Loading Kaizen Event
A medical device manufacturer needed to increase its annual production without compromising safety or customer delivery schedules.
12 Tips to Sustain Improvement in Lean Equipment Maintenance Programs
For companies that truly want to maximize their equipment uptime, productivity, and quality, a disciplined approach is critical.
Three Kaizen Events Help Component Supplier Meet Delivery Expectations
As a result of the three Kaizen events DPA managed, the company was able to significantly improve their delivery performance while reducing lead times.