manufacturing

Most businesses fail. There are a whole host of reasons why, but it usually boils down to a lack of understanding of the basic rules of business.  This blog will look at some rules that most businesses ignore, but that can make or break the success of a business. What are the reasons businesses fail?

Do you have some innovative ideas for new products but don’t know how to make them a reality? Don’t worry; you’re not alone. Many people have amazing business ideas but don’t know where to start. This blog post will discuss 5 ways to make your product ideas a reality. How do you turn innovative ideas […]

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?

It’s an undeniable fact that the fast pace of technological progress is one of the most defining traits of our modern-day civilization. What would seem barely a century ago like unholy magic only tricksters can do now is not only perfectly normal but, more importantly – ubiquitously available like technology improving the efficiency of business. […]

Even though external influencing factors are improving for manufacturing, successful companies are constantly looking for ways to refine the production process. Manufacturers can increase efficiency even more this year. What does continuous improvement mean in manufacturing?

How does manufacturing flow differ from design flow, and how can you use these core processes to implement continuous process improvement?

A typical scoreboard will be revised six or seven times before it is contains the right metrics. What do your business metrics say about your business?

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 […]