by samy.teeptrak | May 6, 2021 | Industrial Performance, Market Trends, News & Industry Events
French and European industry, between crisis and shortage? La pandémie de COVID-19 a bouleversé l’économie mondiale. Dans les livres d’histoire, on pourra un jour lire l’arrêt total de la production mondiale. Dans le même temps, les besoins en...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Mar 26, 2021 | Lean Manufacturing, Process Optimization
Ergonomics, a necessary step in your Lean approach Ergonomics at the workstation is an important principle in Lean management. It helps to avoid disturbing situations, while at the same time generating added value. Taking ergonomics into account helps to reduce...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Feb 24, 2021 | Lean Manufacturing, Process Optimization
Will Lean Manufacturing have an impact beyond the shop floor? In 1913, when Henry Ford was setting up a highly productive organisation based on flow, we were not yet talking about Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office or even Lean. Today, we can safely say that he was the...
by Équipe TEEPTRAK | Feb 10, 2021 | Industrial Performance, Process Optimization
Controlling or piloting, a nuance that makes all the difference. Whether it’s quality, performance or safety, we instinctively think of control as a way of feeding indicators. But what is control? Control is the action of checking something or someone, verifying...
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...
