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All about the industry 4.0, how to improve its performance, quality, lean, maintenance and all the challenges of today’s industry.
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How to write effective work instructions
Any organization relies on efficient and quality documentation to be able to work, move forward and achieve continuous improvement. In the industry, the essential documents are [...]
What is Kaizen culture of continuous improvement
Improvement is a rigorous process that consists of optimizing products, services and industrial processes within factories. Efforts can be spread over specific interventions at specific intervals [...]
How to reduce the number of errors and improve the production quality system ?
In industry, errors, whether human or mechanical, result in defects in products. In the end, it is the production quality that is affected, which has a negative [...]
Why you absolutely need to set up an Andon system?
Belonging to Lean Manufacturing, Andon is a visual and audible alert system installed in factories to signal failures and inefficiencies in the production chain. It is a [...]
What is Smart Manufacturing?
The connected factories that are emerging today in this digital age foreshadow the intelligent industry of the future of work. We are witnessing major transformations and innovations [...]
How continuous improvement can benefit manufacturing productivity?
The concept of productivity matches the relationship between the production of goods and the means (human, material, financial and organizational) necessary for its realization. It constitutes [...]
5 reasons to use Digital Work Instructions
At a time when everything tends to be digitized in the world of industry, work instructions do not escape this transformation. They are fundamental documents, since they are [...]
5 types of maintenance to know about
Industrial maintenance processes and maintenance programs are the cornerstone of business productivity and reliability. Thus, many types of maintenance coexist in order to provide manufacturers with opportunities to [...]
Differences between Work instruction, Process and Procedure
The terminology of the industry has such a great amount of written concepts and notions that it becomes essential to know in order to set up [...]
How to ensure repeated operations from one operator to another?
The repeatability of operations is one of the success factors for plants wishing to improve their competitiveness and the quality of their products. Operators must be able to reproduce [...]
How does a digital work instruction get it right on the first try?
Non-conformities represent one of the main sources of revenue loss for industrial companies. In a rapidly changing environment where the various players are seeking to optimize their processes and [...]
How to deal with staff turnover and ensure that newcomers’ skills are upgraded?
The industrial sector has always suffered from a high turnover rate and in recent years has faced difficulties in recruiting and attracting and retaining young talent. It is believed [...]