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.
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.
Tightening Operations to Increase a Printing Company’s Margins
A family-owned operated and managed full-service printing company with 40 employees. The company aims to be the greenest commercial printer in the U.S.
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
Reducing Lead Times for a Power Gen Industry Supplier
Helping a leading supplier to the power generation industry by reducing lead times for their inspection and procurement processes.
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
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.
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.