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Distance + Prioritization + Pick Venue = Location
How To's, Manufacturing  |   May 18, 2017

Distance + Prioritization + Pick Venue = Location

By optimizing your pick area for shipping operations you can reduce costs, speed products to market and increase customer satisfaction.
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Logistics
DPA Helps Supplier Resolve Inventory and Return to Vendor Issues
Manufacturing, Success Stories  |   May 17, 2017

DPA Helps Supplier Resolve Inventory and Return to Vendor Issues

A fast-growing supplier of tankless water heaters experienced a high rate of inventory errors. DPA supported the work of a kaizen team within the company to identify and solve process
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Continuous ImprovementKaizen
How to Balance Your Preventive Maintenance Workload
How To's, Manufacturing  |   April 27, 2017

How to Balance Your Preventive Maintenance Workload

Are you tired of that month, quarter or year-end crunch to get your preventive maintenance (PM) work done? Minimize the chance of this happening again.
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MaintenancePreventive Maintenance
Finished Goods Strategy
Manufacturing, Success Stories  |   April 17, 2017

Finished Goods Strategy

DPA’s Kaizen team helped a medical device manufacturer implement a finished goods strategy to reduce lead times and satisfy delivery commitments to its customers.
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Kaizen
From hype to adoption: Is your maintenance program ready for the IIoT?
How To's, Manufacturing  |   March 20, 2017

From hype to adoption: Is your maintenance program ready for the IIoT?

Maintenance Programs - what are the potential benefits of using the IIoT for your maintenance operation?
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IIOTMaintenance
Six Steps to Design a Preventive Maintenance Program
Healthcare, How To's, Manufacturing  |   February 10, 2017

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
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MaintenancePredictive MaintenancePreventive Maintenance
How to Set Up a Lean Factory That Works – Part 2
How To's, Manufacturing  |   January 19, 2017

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.
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Continuous ImprovementFactoryLean Management
Why Preventive Maintenance Fails (and how to fix it)
How To's, Manufacturing  |   December 21, 2016

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?
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MaintenancePredictive MaintenancePreventive Maintenance
Reducing Production Time
Manufacturing, Success Stories  |   December 9, 2016

Reducing Production Time

A pharmaceutical plant I worked with excelled with their preventive maintenance program. What were the key drivers of their success?
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Lean ManagementMaintenance
Adapting Two Production Cells
Manufacturing, Success Stories  |   December 9, 2016

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.
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Kaizen
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