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6 Powerful Strategies to Improve Manufacturing Process Efficiency (Part 3)
In this section, we will continue to explore strategies manufacturers can produce to improve their process efficiency. 5. Develop a Schedule and Standards for Routine Maintenance Even the most efficient processes fall short when machinery breaks down due to insufficient maintenance procedures. That’s why it’s crucial to view equipment maintenance as...
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6 Powerful Strategies to Improve Manufacturing Process Efficiency (Part 2)
In this section, we will continue to explore strategies manufacturers can produce to improve their process efficiency. 3. Recognize Employee Engagement as a Way to Improve Process Efficiency Process efficiency suffers if employees don’t feel engaged in their work or are not able to collaborate with others. It may also take...
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6 Powerful Strategies to Improve Manufacturing Process Efficiency
A process is a repeatable aspect of business operations that can be optimized to boost efficiency. In a manufacturing setting, keeping a high level of efficiency is especially crucial because doing so directly impacts total output, customer satisfaction and more. Making gains with process efficiency takes time and concentrated, ongoing effort....
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Manufacturing Software: The Rise of the Smart Factory (Part 3)
In the previous section, we learned about MES and ERP and the benefits that enterprises can gain by integrating these two software. So if MRP replaces the role of MES, what will businesses achieve? What’s the Difference Between MES and ERP? At first glance, the two systems look like they do...
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How to Improve Manufacturing Productivity
The more effective your manufacturing productivity, the more money your business can make. Variables that interfere with productivity, such as broken machinery, are sometimes easy to identify. Sometimes, however, issues aren’t as easy to see, such as if too much is going on at once and the complexity slows down your...
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New Harting connectors optimize production and reduce costs on wind turbine projects
The wind industry is streamlining its global manufacturing and installation processes to boost efficiency: costs are set to be further reduced as systems grow ever larger. The industry is relying on technical optimization along the value chain and over the full lifetime of installations as a way to keep investment and operating...
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Factors to Improve Productivity (Part 2)
At some stage in the growth cycle of an enterprise, the workload will reach the current level of human resources that the company cannot handle. Especially for small businesses with low number of employees, this is even more a problem. To solve this problem, instead of quickly recruiting new employees, temporary...
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Factors to Improve Productivity (Part 1)
For small businesses, improving productivity is not about making wholesale changes to the way you do business, and it is not about injecting a large pool of funds to improve production outputs. Rather, productivity is achieved by developing consistent improvement measures that make your existing systems, and people, more effective over...
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Singapore: Develop a set of evaluation indicators for smart production
In highly developed industrial countries, Industry 4.0 in the industrial sector is determined to focus on smart manufacturing. With the aim of promoting Industry 4.0, the Singapore Government has developed a set of assessment indicators called the Singapore Smart Industry Readiness Index. The set of indicators is the first tool in...
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The World Class Manufacturing solution in the Fiat Chrysler Automenses system (Part 2) ...
In order for the method to work, it is necessary to provide innovative, frontier tools. One of these is the exoskeleton. This is a kind of intelligent armor, which helps the worker in the most difficult and tiring jobs. Exoskeletons were equipped last year and on an experimental basis with some...
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