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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 masques, en matériel médical et en produits numériques ont explosé. Tout cela a conduit à une pénurie mondiale. C’était en mai 2020, et c’est encore dans tous les esprits. Un an après, où en sommes-nous ?

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 movements and their impact…

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 first to use these concepts…

Whether it’s quality, performance or safety, we instinctively think of control as a way of feeding indicators. But what is control?

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 information, and the ERP systems that have become the standard for global production management over the last century. They are far more comprehensive than the expert bricks…

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 ‘best-practices’. They depend on the sector of activity, but are applicable to all companies…

As the festive season approaches, manufacturers are taking stock. How productive were their machines this year? At the plants surveyed, around 5% of unplanned stoppages were due to breakdowns or maintenance in 2020….

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 other sectors are particularly vulnerable and exposed, so manufacturers need to produce more efficiently. The best way to do this is to focus on the 7 areas of waste…

As a manufacturer, your main challenge is to achieve quality production with the best possible equipment availability and maximum machine performance

Yet manual methods of measuring performance are still widespread, time-consuming and unreliable: it is estimated that they cause plants to lose between 5 and 30 performance points…

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 knowing how to provide a good diagnosis is vital. The two work together and are indissociable…

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 look at a selection of indicators to be used for a pertinent analysis of your machines’ productivity…