Rebuilding Manufacturing in France | Radu Demetrescoux
Radu Demetrescoux has been a manufacturing consultant for 25 years and recently authored a Lean Toolbox (in French)…
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JMC Ford Factory Adopts Comau Flexible Assembly System
Comau has designed and deployed a 100% automated body-in-white (BIW) manufacturing system for JMC Ford to produce high-end…
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The Benefits of an Enterprise Architecture for Manufacturers
Manufacturers face numerous technology-related challenges, ranging from data fragmentation and operational inefficiencies to a growing need for real-time…
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What are Good KPIs?
To control any kind of system, you need to know its status. For a simple system like heating,…
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Radix Launches Data Intelligence Initiatives for Asset Intensive Industries
Radix, a global supplier of asset performance management software, announced two significant developments in the second half of…
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Effects on Efficiency—Group Size, Line, Location, Product
In my last post, I started to look at factors that affect the efficiency of your line, in…
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Effects on Efficiency—Takt Time
Whenever I visit a factory where manual work is done, I try to estimate the percentage of value-adding…
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Elements of Change Management
Change management is an operational process that helps organizations deal with change and have an efficient and seamless…
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Waste in All of Industry
Everyone is familiar with Taiichi Ohno’s seven wastes in manufacturing processes. But let’s zoom out from the seven…
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Genba Scientists and Scientific Thinking
Scientific thinking has become very popular within the Lean community since the publication of Toyota Kata in 2009….
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