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 coined term of Japanese origin and the system was used for the first time at Toyota. The Andon can be [...]
Business Intelligence : Why data management should be your priority
To find the origins of Business Intelligence (BI), we have to go back to 1958 to a German computer scientist working at IBM named Hans Peter Luhn. He was the first to propose the theory of an automated system allowing "(...) to disseminate information to the different sections of any [...]
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 both in the way of production and in the organization of these structures. Innovative Smart Manufacturing techniques and processes, which [...]
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 one of the fundamental stakes for any actor in the industry.Maximizing it is the permanent goal of any industrial companies, whatever the [...]
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 the ones which explain to the operators the actions to be carried out seamlessly within their workstations, and some advocate their [...]
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 optimize their production lines. Each company defines its industrial maintenance needs and implements a planning strategy. The main types of industrial maintenance [...]
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 and guarantee an effective organization. Identifying them precisely makes establishing and maintaining industrial documentation that can be seamlessly adapted to the [...]
4 ways to reduce downtime in a workshop
Downtime is one of the major causes that hinder productivity. In fact, this wasted time engenders the loss of irremediable capacities. Generally, its data is noted on a paper. This makes the implementation of an improvement process difficult. Limiting planned and unplanned downtime often poses a real [...]
