Toyota Change Point Management: Henkaten
Henkaten is an approach by Toyota to deal with changes in their manufacturing system. It is one of…
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How to Minimize Downtime During Digital Change
The integration of Industry 4.0 solutions can significantly enhance operational efficiency, particularly in terms of minimizing downtime. However,…
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Why We Need Visual Management…
Visual management is a hot topic in lean manufacturing. It is not a do-or-do-not method like kanban or…
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Why Operators Need to Measure Their Own Data!
The goal is to have everything relevant easily visible on the shop floor. Ideally, this is through the…
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Robotic Case Picker Doubles Worker Throughput
Designed for use in the consumer packaged goods, food and beverage and medical supplies industries as well logistics and…
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Kaizen Through Growing Your People
As mentioned in my last post, continuous improvement (kaizen) is done through people, ideally close to the shop…
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Rockwell Automation’s Integration Strategy
“When you think about manufacturing, you can see just how it important it is. From providing food and…
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Behind the Slowdown in Robot Orders
Given all the interest in robots we’ve been seeing over the past decade, a recent report from the…
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Who Does Kaizen?
One core aspect of lean manufacturing is continuous improvement, or kaizen in Japanese. This concept emphasizes ongoing, incremental…
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A Common Mistake in Doing Lean: Skipping the Details!
Lean manufacturing is a great set of philosophies and tools to improve your production system, or for that…
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