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 [...]
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 the same actions to ensure the conformity of parts and avoid returns and non-conformities. This concept is of paramount importance in [...]
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 improve their quality in order to remain competitive, waste and the production of defective parts are no longer tolerated. The integration [...]
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 that the ideal solution to these problems is to succeed in implementing an integration strategy for newcomers that ensures a [...]
