Maintenance

Process maps can look complete and still miss the real problem. A team may document every visible step, add neat boxes and arrows, and still fail to see where work slows down, where handoffs break, or where an ideal process differs from what employees actually do. Effective businesses operate effective business processes as part of […]

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are an important part of any business, but they are especially critical in the website maintenance process. Having a clear and concise SOP in place can ensure that your website is always up-to-date and running smoothly. How do you create a standard operating procedure for website maintenance?

Any given organization has different departments; however, the asset-intensive ones have a particular department in common — the maintenance department. What are the responsibilities of maintenance manager?

As a manufacturer, you likely have to deal with large investments and the high costs of production. Part of that cost is the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ): scrap, rework, returns and the time spent fixing problems, which often represents one of the biggest issues in the industry. If that is the case, finding new, […]

Large-scale manufacturers rarely lose efficiency in one dramatic event. They lose it in five ordinary places: unplanned downtime after a workplace injury, a line that stops when the only trained operator is away, manual quality checks that people cannot sustain, faults nobody sees until the line halts, and machinery run to failure. Each of those […]