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Agile Maintenance Models & Best Practices

ATS

Assess the current state of projects and processes: The first step in developing an agile approach for your processes or projects is to audit and assess their current state. The focus on value is a core tenet of lean maintenance, a separate but related concept that we will review later in this piece). What is agile maintenance?

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Navigating Production Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Capacity Planning Assess manufacturing capacity regularly. Lean & Continuous Improvement Here are the basics: Foster open communication lines with customers, suppliers, and internal teams. Implement lean manufacturing principles to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and minimize production costs.

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Decoding Reshoring: Motivations, Challenges and Technological Influences

Mold Making Technology

Delivery time is another challenge, which can be addressed through a companywide Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) strategy to reduce lead times across the company. QRM is often used alongside existing improvement initiatives such as Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

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Attracting High-Quality Workers with Higher Quality Jobs

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

This directly ties into the Lean concept of empowering workers to be more engaged, and can make a positive impact on the direction of your organization. Regularly assess your working conditions for hazards and promptly address safety issues to ensure workers’ on-the-job safety.

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Beyond the Machine: Total Solutions

Fabricating & Metal Work

Involving them early also allows you to assess their readiness to make the transition and provide any necessary training so they can hit the ground running. Here are a few ideas to get you started with stating your shop’s goals: What goals would make automation a viable solution? How can we measure and define success?

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Stronger ships weather greater storms

Manufacturer's Monthly

Leverage the AME Past Excellence Award Winner’s channel on YouTube as a quick way to get an inside view into some of the world’s best and most mature organisations. There are many types of assessments, audits and evaluations any business must undertake to understand its risks, strengths and opportunities.

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Sanding Cobots Change Minds ?and ?Lives

Fabricating & Metal Work

Moreover, following a risk assessment, cobots can be safely deployed beside human workers without the need for space-hogging safety fences and guarding. Plus, I won’t be leaning over for the next 10 years sanding stuff.’ Savage Sanding Sanding is grueling work. I’ve got another decade to go in my career before I retire.