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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.
Our last posts
Our last posts
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 [...]
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 [...]
Attracting young talent to the plant with digital solutions
In recent years, one of the biggest challenges facing industrial companies is the difficulty in recruiting new talent to succeed retiring employees. This translates into a slowdown in the [...]
Infographic : 3 steps to improve operator safety
Any professional activity involves an element of risk. The world of industry is no exception; operators operate in the midst of equipment that is sometimes heavy, bulky, powerful, and [...]
Digitization of work instructions: Cost or Benefit?
In an industrial environment undergoing rapid digital change, the digitalization of work instructions is essential to enable companies to motivate their teams, improve safety at work and, above all, [...]
How to reduce the human factor in order to eliminate deviations?
In the pharmaceutical industry, deviations are one of the main causes of lost profits. Being high-risk, non-compliances are not tolerated and therefore need to be corrected. This inflicts a [...]
Infography : 5 tips to write work instructions
Writing work instructions can sometimes seem long and without added value because they are not viewed by workers. But it is precisely these supports that allow workers to perform [...]