Industry: reduce the changeovers’ time
The hunt for waste, in all its forms, is at the heart of production strategies, as they constitute a lot of obstacles to performance. Waste of time is one of those aspects on which managers focus their efforts to reduce its scope, as it is particularly [...]
The difficulty of updating paper-based work instructions
Key element of industrial documentation, the operating mode is the basic support that allows operators to be guided in the performance of the tasks inherent to their respective jobs. It is therefore vital for the company that these documents are not only perfectly clear and legible, [...]
How to write a useful and effective standard maintenance procedure?
Maintenance is a vital activity in the industry. When properly orchestrated and applied, it allows the company to ensure customer satisfaction, since it is able to provide the customer with a quality product. It also helps to preserve its resources by ensuring that production resources remain [...]
Capture and transfer tacit and explicit knowledge in the industry
Learning, acquisition and transmission of knowledge are key factors in determining a company's performance. In industry, knowledge is of two types: explicit knowledge, which can be formalized and codified, and tacit knowledge, which is less tangible and much more complicated to transmit. The objective of any [...]
The impact of knowledge centralization on the training of newcomers
One of the main assets of a company is the knowledge it strives to create, acquire, manage and optimize. And since, in the world of the industry as in any organization, some people leave while others arrive, it is essential to ensure that this know-how can [...]
What are the 5 main principles of Lean Thinking applied to the industry?
Make processes more efficient by identifying and eliminating waste, knowing customer expectations and organizing to meet them. These are the main objectives that define Lean Thinking, a "way of thinking" based on the Lean approach and promoted by the authors of a book that has become [...]
The goal of the maintenance of the future: 0 Downtime
Maintenance is one of the vital components of the industry. It has continuously improved as production processes and equipment have evolved, and it is therefore in the natural order of things that it continues to do so in the future. For the industry of the future, [...]
Operational excellence in the service of quality
Production equipment and techniques are constantly evolving, but technological advances integrated into the industry do not bring anything concrete if the personnel called upon to implement them do not themselves benefit from improvement programs. The operator remains at the centre of the activity of any organization [...]
