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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
