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 made of various natures and, among them, the work instructions are true repositories for all the company’s actors : the workers, new employees, [...]
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 or grouped together for global implementation. This structured and methodical approach is a core component of industrial process optimization, aiming to [...]
How to capture the know-how of your experts?
It is important to know that the concept of know-how is part of the cultural, historical and intellectual capital of the industry. In fact, in the industrial sector, the issue of the transmission of knowledge has become one of the challenges of our society today. This is [...]
Digitizing or digitalizing your work instructions?
Thanks to information technology advances in recent years, we are hearing more and more about industry 4.0. However, few entrepreneurs really know what it is. The most important thing to remember is that the transition to industry 4.0 boosts your productivity and greatly improves the quality of your products. [...]
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 impact on customer satisfaction. A global system at the service of production quality Eliminating errors is one of the top priorities of [...]
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 [...]
