by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Jan 20, 2021 | Digitization & Industrie 4.0, Process Optimization
Which technology is best: MES or expert bricks? MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) are an important link in the chain of production performance monitoring. They provide the link between the sensors, actuators and PLCs that are essential for feeding back production...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Jan 13, 2021 | Industrial Performance, Market Trends
Industry’s good resolutions for 2021 Now that employees have brought the workshops back to life after the holidays, it’s time to make some good collective resolutions. Collective’ implies the entire workforce of a plant. The good resolutions will be...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Dec 16, 2020 | Industrial maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, Process Optimization
5 levels of maintenance to put under the Christmas tree As the festive season approaches, manufacturers are taking stock. How productive were their machines this year? Among the plants surveyed, around 5% of unplanned stoppages were due to breakdowns or maintenance in...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Nov 18, 2020 | Industrial Performance, Lean Manufacturing, Process Optimization
The 7 wastes of Lean: how to get rid of them? After rebounding slightly in July, French industrial production is now struggling to return to pre-crisis growth levels, with an increase of just 1.3% in the fourth quarter. With the exception of the food industry, the...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Oct 30, 2020 | Industrial maintenance, Industrial Performance, Process Optimization
How can you improve your machine performance with a dedicated monitoring tool? As a manufacturer, your main challenge is to achieve quality production with maximum equipment availability and maximum machine performance. Yet manual methods of measuring performance are...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Oct 21, 2020 | Industrial Performance, Lean Manufacturing
What tools are needed for a Lean deployment using the DMAIC method? Most of the time, when people ask for a definition of Lean, the answer given is often a list of tools, which in no way reflects the approach. Knowledge and mastery of Lean tools is central, but...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Oct 14, 2020 | Industrial maintenance, Industrial Performance
What indicators should you use to measure the performance of your machines? To achieve the objectives of a Lean approach focused on machine performance, it is necessary to exploit all the data linked to machine performance and availability. In this article, we will...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Oct 2, 2020 | News & Industry Events
Our long-standing customer Nutriset wins the ‘Productivity Trophy The 2020 Plant Productivity Trophy has been awarded to Nutriset, one of TeepTrak’s long-standing customers. To meet this challenge, the company deployed our PerfTrak, MoniTrak and ProcessTrak...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Sep 30, 2020 | Lean Manufacturing
People at the heart of Lean and continuous improvement in business The Lean approach is based on the continuous improvement of procedures to achieve results in terms of business performance. However, it is often reduced to the implementation of tools and methods...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Sep 24, 2020 | Lean Manufacturing
How do you carry out a Lean diagnosis? All you need to know in 4 key steps If your company’s Lean approach is to be a success and sustainable, you need to structure your project, and to do this, a Lean diagnosis is an essential tool. Carrying out a Lean...
