What to do to improve production quality?
The world of the modern industry does not leave room for stagnation, especially when it comes to quality. Each company is called upon to improve in this regard in order to remain efficient and competitive. Waste, dysfunctions and sources of non-quality are real obstacles to production [...]
Enhance the operational know-how of your company
The performance of a company is not only determined by the means of production at its disposal. It is also defined by the intangible capital it has built up, as well as by its ability to preserve, optimize and transmit it. The promotion of operational know-how [...]
Gemba Walk : How to review the organization of industries
Developing and theorizing processes and methods is important in any industry. Nevertheless, these concepts, even if they are very precise and complete, are always confronted with the reality on the ground, which is inevitably made up of unexpected events, problems and various dysfunctions. This is why [...]
What are the innovations for industrial maintenance?
In industry, robots and software are now part of the landscape and continue to profoundly change production locations. These new and increasingly sophisticated tools redefine both the working environment and the way employees carry out their missions, including those related to maintenance. The monitoring of machines [...]
Grasp the arrival of digital technology for industries
Some companies have already entered the digital age by integrating the new technologies it brings and reorganizing themselves accordingly. Others have only just begun this digital transformation and are stepping up their efforts to avoid being on the sidelines of this evolution. All of them are [...]
Create safety procedures for workers and technicians
The same way as work instructions, safety measures and verification procedures must be scrupulously observed in order to reduce the risk of incidents that could harm the physical or moral integrity of an employee. Indeed, no organization can neglect the elementary rules of security within its [...]
Total Productive Maintenance: a performance lever?
Total productive maintenance, which began in Japan in the early 1970s, was quickly exported, as the first experiments proved to be so successful. Today, this method is applied in most mass production industries. TPM is considered by many specialists as a real performance lever. However, to [...]
How important is traceability?
It is not enough to assign an identifier to a product to talk about traceability. The follow-up of its elaboration, from its arrival to its exit from the production chain and its distribution, requires an entire organization to think and set up. When traceability and production [...]
