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 [...]
What is the cost of non-quality on a production site?
Can we ensure production that meets customer expectations while remaining competitive and improving profit levels? This is the multivariate equation that arises in an industry where performance is a guarantee of survival, with competition more intense than ever. The cost of non-quality is an aspect that we cannot afford [...]
What is standardization?
Standardization is one of the major actors in the success story of Japanese industry, and then in other countries that have had a good idea to follow in its footsteps. What are the principles? What improvements does it allow? What are the conditions for success? Standardization: [...]
Data to feed the continuous improvement process
The continuous improvement process is an approach implemented by the company to improve its operations, products and services. The approaches chosen thus vary according to the company’s objectives and resources. However, in order to implement a personalized continuous improvement strategy, manufacturers must collect all the necessary [...]
