TEEPTRAK blog articles

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…

  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 still widespread, time-consuming and unreliable: it is estimated that they cause plants to lose between 5 and 30...

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…

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 solutions. Today, more than 18 systems are in continuous operation, enabling Nutriset to combat world hunger more effectively…

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 without taking the human aspect into account… Elle est pourtant souvent réduite à la mise en place d’outils et méthodes sans prendre en compte l’humain…

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 diagnosis will enable you to analyze and share…