Where are the industrial companies in their digital transformation?
The process of digitizing the industry, which has been underway for several years now, has only just begun to reveal its first impacts. While, overall, the feedback from experience is rather encouraging, the digital transformation of factories will only really reveal its secrets in terms of significant [...]
Preparing technicians and engineers with the new tools of the smart industry
The industry of the future is already in motion. It is characterized in particular by the use of increasingly complex and sophisticated tools, those related to digital technology, and therefore requires the adaptation of the skills of technicians and engineers to these technologies.In the context of the [...]
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 [...]
