This article is for plant managers, production managers, continuous improvement and maintenance leaders who have to decide where the next productivity effort goes: a TPM push, a lean program, training, or new equipment. Each of those choices commits people and budget...
This article is for production managers, manufacturing engineers, continuous improvement leaders and plant managers who run high-mix lines: several formats, materials or tool sets on the same equipment. On these lines a single SMED standard does not hold, because a...
This article is for production managers, schedulers, production planners and methods and continuous improvement leads who want to make changeovers not only faster but also better planned. It explains why changeover time depends on the order of jobs, how to build a...
This article is for plant managers, production managers, continuous improvement leads and maintenance managers who run or sponsor kaizen events and then have to answer a simple question a month later: did the gain actually happen, and on which machines? It explains...
This article is for plant managers, production managers, shop floor supervisors and continuous improvement leads who run, or sit through, a production meeting every morning. It sets out a 15 minute format built on one raw material: yesterday’s downtime data....
This article is for plant managers, production managers and continuous improvement, lean, industrial engineering and maintenance leads who are planning or revisiting a value stream map in manufacturing. The method is well known. The weak point is usually the numbers:...
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