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.
Standardizing Set Ups and Reducing Re-work for a Fiber Products Manufacturer
Improving throughput was the challenge to find ways of standardizing setups while streamlining an increase in reliability on a major production line.
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.
Production to Shipping Performance
How DPA helped improve the flow in the shipping department so that available goods are processed more efficiently increasing productivity in the shipping department by 30%.
How to Boost Manufacturing Productivity
Organizations that apply lean thinking to their operations and processes can realize significant and sustainable productivity benefits.
DPA Helps Aerospace Supplier Ensure Machine Reliability
A manufacturer of specialty components wanted to make sure that its molding press equipment will reliably produce a 60% increase in orders from its biggest aviation customer.
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?
Implementing a Pull System on a Medical Device Production Floor
DPA performed a Kaizen event to implement the pull system for the Die Stamp value stream on a medical device production floor.
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.