Different industries pioneer change in a world that is in constant flux. They innovate, reinvent themselves, and try to find different strategies to deal with change. For example, after the pandemic, many businesses went digital and manufacturing companies were not…
Edge Computing vs Cloud Computing Explained
Edge computing and cloud computing are the future of computing and are here to stay. We tend to confuse them, thinking they mean the same or that one will replace the other. The truth is, they are the two sides…
Process Improvement With Cost Deployment
Factory owners can assess which areas of their manufacturing process require improvement by using cost deployment. It is a great tool that analyzes and quantifies the losses of a process to achieve process improvement. When quantifying losses, we look for…
Eight Wastes of Lean Manufacturing
The Meaning of “Waste” in Lean Manufacturing In lean manufacturing, we consider “waste” as any operation that does not add value to the customer. In other words, waste reduces profits, therefore, customers do not want to pay for it. Lean…
Increase Productivity With Manufacturing Technologies
The concept of Industry 4.0 represents a major change for most organizations. Since many of them became stuck during the pandemic, they took their chances and betted on the digital transformation of their company. They did this to increase productivity,…
What Is Lean Manufacturing?
The management model “lean manufacturing” seeks to minimize losses and it also boosts added value to customers. Furthermore, this model is based on the idea that waste includes every operation that does not add value to the customer’s experience. For…
Manufacturing Automation With IoT
If you connect and automate machines, they generally work in a more efficient way. This is a basic principle that makes sense, since manufacturing automation allows for data exchange, thus optimizing processes. Even though it may sound like a vision,…
Manufacturing Metrics: TEEP, OOE, OEE, and Takt Time
Besides OEE, it is accurate to say that we must take other manufacturing metrics into account when measuring and analyzing production. These metrics are: TEEP, OOE, and takt time. In this article, we will explain to you what they consist…
OEE Calculation
We have already discussed the meaning of OEE in other articles, so, hereunder, we will explain how to calculate this productivity indicator and why it is important to do so. How to calculate OEE? OEE calculation is used as the…