Manufacturing KPIs
eFlex Systems
JANUARY 11, 2024
There are three essential prerequisites for setting and measuring manufacturing KPIs – a consistent process, clear standards, and the tools to measure. Read on in the Epicor blog.
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In this guide, we outline the top 11 supply chain KPIs to help you focus on critical areas of your supply chain performance. What are supply chain KPIs?
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Top 10 Manufacturing KPIs in 2023
MRPEasy
DECEMBER 26, 2022
The goal of every manufacturing business is to be as efficient as possible. Here is where manufacturing KPIs come into play. But without being able to accurately gauge your efficiency, it is hard to know where you stand and what goals to set.
11 Most Important Inventory Management KPIs in 2023
MRPEasy
MAY 23, 2023
Tracking inventory management KPIs can go a long way in achieving these goals. In this post, we look at 11 of the most important inventory management KPIs and give tips on how to put them to use.
What is a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)?
ATS
JANUARY 8, 2025
Whiteboards, cards and spreadsheets may have had their place, but manufacturers who are serious about improving their competitive position should look to one tool, a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). This blog takes a close look at CMMS software. A good solution for small to medium-size manufacturers.
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Top 6 Challenges in Warehouse Management & How to Overcome Them
CMTC Manufacturing Tech
JANUARY 16, 2025
As covered in our previous blog , warehousing and distribution management is of critical importance. When its pumping reliably, your manufacturing operations benefit from predictability providing your business with a rock-solid foundation for growth. Your warehouse is like the beating heart of your supply chain.
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Cost of Goods Sold in Manufacturing – How to Calculate COGS
MRPEasy
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
The many cost-oriented KPIs in manufacturing accounting constitute some of the most important financial metrics for manufacturers and distributors. In this post, we look at the function and relevance of one such KPI – the Cost of Goods Sold. What is the Cost of Goods Sold? The Cost of Goods Sold, or COGS is a […].
Bottleneck Analysis in Lean Manufacturing
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FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Share Lean manufacturing focuses on eliminating waste and optimizing processes to achieve maximum efficiency and expediency. This is why conducting a bottleneck analysis in lean manufacturing operations is such a critical step for manufacturers to take. What is bottleneck analysis?
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What Are Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) and How to Manage Them?
MRPEasy
APRIL 17, 2023
Using SKU codes for inventory tracking allows you to avoid stockouts and overstocking, ensure effective picking and dispatch, and track inventory performance related KPIs. appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors. What is a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)?
Leadership Strategies for Industrial Maintenance Management
ATS
MARCH 25, 2025
While the primary goal in maintenance strategy is to keep machines running, it also impacts larger corporate objectives such as lean manufacturing initiatives or overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Sharing these KPIs with production and operations helps improve synergy. This starts with strategic alignment.
Industrial Maintenance Supervisors: Role, Description & Certifications
ATS
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
This is why many manufacturers and production facilities have a dedicated maintenance supervisor on staff to oversee these mission-critical tasks. Communication and reporting: Supervisors must be able to keep management updated on maintenance KPIs such as downtime and repair costs.
Industrial Maintenance KPIs: Measuring Success & Efficiency
ATS
OCTOBER 2, 2024
This blog is about ways of measuring maintenance performance. After clarifying the relationship between KPIs and metrics, it reviews the four categories, discusses which are most important and offers some guidance on using them. What are industrial maintenance KPIs? In manufacturing, KPIs often relate to output.
Heijunka & Production Leveling in Manufacturing
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MAY 14, 2025
Share Uneven customer demand creates significant challenges for manufacturers: increased overtime, excess inventory, and wasted labor, among other obstacles. Instead, production leveling or Heijunka offers a proactive solution rooted in Lean manufacturing. Launch a pilot line , gather real-time data, and iterate.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
In this blog, we’ll explore the key elements of a long-term strategic plan to help you navigate today’s competitive manufacturing landscape. For instance, a very small manufacturer will never be able to match the production volume capabilities of a larger competitor. There are countless KPIs that SMMs can measure.
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11 Most Important Inventory Management KPIs in 2024
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What is Cycle Time in the Manufacturing Process?
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NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Cycle time is the time it takes to complete a single manufacturing operation. It is a manufacturing KPI used to measure the efficiency of specific production processes and to discover and eliminate bottlenecks. appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors. What is cycle time?
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What to Include in Your Manufacturing Production Reports
ATS
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Manufacturing production reports are one of the key facilitators of this decision-making. Production reporting provides real-time insights into the processes and metrics that matter most to the organization — those that have been identified as key performance indicators (KPIs). What is production reporting?
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
ATS
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
This blog explains what enterprise asset management entails, the benefits it delivers and how it relates to computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). If you’re looking for ways to reduce CapEx and OpEx, this blog will provide some ideas to follow up on. EAM software helps manufacturers pursue these objectives.
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How to Create a Lean Culture
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Lean manufacturing is much more than a collection of tools. In this blog, we address why culture matters. Lean helps manufacturers focus on what customers expect by identifying what products, features, processes, and activities are of value to customers and seeks to remove or minimize everything else. Why Become Lean?
Industrial Chiller Maintenance: Key Practices, Preventive Maintenance Checklist & Sensor Monitoring
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OCTOBER 8, 2024
Share Industrial chillers are key elements of many manufacturers’ operations, removing heat from fluids for air conditioning, dehumidification and controlled cooling for various applications. Having a chiller maintenance checklist is one important step all manufacturers should take, but there’s more to it than simply getting organized.
Rapid Improvement Events in Manufacturing
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OCTOBER 24, 2022
Maintenance in manufacturing is a many-faceted undertaking, comprising an extensive toolset of tactics and practices. The Alpha Strike rapid improvement event is built on the Kaizen event foundation, drawing from continuous improvement and Kaizen lean manufacturing principles to drive analysis, action and results.
Reducing Waste in Manufacturing with Predictive Maintenance
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OCTOBER 2, 2024
Businesses that reduce waste in manufacturing increase their margins and shrink their environmental impact. What is predictive maintenance, and how does it help with reducing waste in manufacturing? Reducing material waste with predictive maintenance Predictive maintenance helps reduce material waste in manufacturing.
Industrial Maintenance Audits: Maximize Asset Reliability
ATS
JUNE 12, 2024
Key areas of focus in a maintenance audit In the typical manufacturing business, the maintenance function works with many other teams. Key performance indicators (KPIs): Maintenance effectiveness can only be improved if appropriate metrics are in place. Elsewhere, use KPIs taken from the CMMS. Contact us to learn more.
Navigating Production Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers
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MARCH 20, 2024
Small and medium-sized manufacturers with successful supply chains rely heavily on robust production planning. Optimizing the production plan, which takes into account the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished goods, can enhance a company’s operational efficiency, cost savings, and customer satisfaction.
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Understanding The Key Differences Between Maintenance and Repairs
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OCTOBER 8, 2024
Next Post Industrial Chiller Maintenance: Key Practices, Preventive Maintenance Checklist & Sensor Monitoring Resources Explore the latest industrial maintenance best practices, trends and news from ATS and learn from industry experts and leading manufacturers.
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Why Are Digital Manufacturing Dashboards Important in Industry 4.0?
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MAY 11, 2022
Read Our Blog. Why Are Digital Manufacturing Dashboards Important in Industry 4.0? Naturally, data and manufacturing dashboards are critical aspects of this process. The manufacturing analytics dashboard converts the never-ending data stream from real-time monitoring devices into simple visual displays and actionable insights.
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How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry?
Factory Worx
MAY 19, 2022
Read Our Blog. How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance. It's used to figure out what percentage of manufacturing time is productive.
What is Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)?
ATS
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Now, assume that the manufacturer had been keeping records of failures and decided to look at MTBF over the past 6 months. The manufacturer uses the same formula, plugging in data from the last 6 months, over which the equipment had experienced 6 failures during 1200 operational hours. Over that same time, two failures occur.
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Criticality Analysis for Industrial Maintenance
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Share Introduction to criticality analysis Manufacturers with a mandate to reduce downtime on the factory floor and improve their operational efficiency find it best to employ criticality analysis to help them prioritize maintenance tasks. They view maintenance holistically in terms of addressing risk, costs and impact on their operations.
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Maintenance Planning Guide
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JULY 21, 2023
Share Maintenance planning is a core component of any effective, efficient manufacturing maintenance program. Maintenance metrics: Equipment, processes and personnel should all have KPIs (key performance indicators) that can be tracked and measured in order to identify areas of need and improvement. What is maintenance planning?
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Supplier Performance Management – Best Practices for Manufacturers
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OCTOBER 5, 2023
Supplier performance management is a vital supply chain process for any manufacturer or distributor that sources its raw materials or other items from external vendors. Effective SPM can bring a wealth of internal benefits and help foster better supplier relationships. What is supplier performance management?
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Strategic Planning Basics for SMMs: Definition, Purpose, and Steps
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MAY 16, 2022
Strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting are integral to the success of small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs). This spending plan will aggregate more niche financial outlines like production and manufacturing overhead budgets. Identify Key Tactics and Corresponding KPIs. Analyze Internal and External Environments.
How the Digital Thread Supercharges Process Mining
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Complex manufacturing processes involve hundreds or even thousands of steps to make a finished product. It’s the science of analyzing data patterns to discover opportunities for optimizing manufacturing processes. Product launches are a key event for manufacturers, critical to revenue, growth, and reputation.
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JULY 6, 2022
Process manufacturers typically operate in data-rich environments and know their plants inside out. Even if this information exists within the manufacturing ecosystem, the plant maintenance and operational heads don’t really know how to use it to achieve optimum plant productivity. . appeared first on Infinite Uptime Blog.
Job Shop vs. Flow Shop in Manufacturing
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MAY 1, 2025
These layouts, also called shops, map the route taken by products through the manufacturing process. For example, manufacturers experiencing sustained growth may experience SKU proliferation as new products are added to workflows. Consider KPIs such as lead time, machine uptime rate, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Aligning Maintenance and Production Teams
ATS
MARCH 18, 2025
Further complications arise from the use of Just-in-Time (JIT)productionand Lean manufacturing practices and the frequency with whichProductionschedules change. On top of this,Maintenance activitycan have a big impact on quality control in manufacturing. This means sharing in KPIs.
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Multi-Facility Maintenance: Strategy & Best Practices
ATS
APRIL 24, 2025
Share One of the toughest challenges for manufacturers is balancing maintenance requirements with production schedules. Not to worry below, well not only break down what makes multi-facility maintenance uniquely challenging but also share practical strategies to help manufacturers streamline operations. Interested in learning more?
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From Vision to Action: 6 Steps to a Successful Strategic Plan
CMTC Manufacturing Tech
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
In this blog, we’ll outline the six steps to creating an effective strategic plan. After setting goals, ensure you measure them with specific KPIs relevant to each department. However, small and medium-sized manufacturers may not have the resources or bandwidth necessary to engage in effective strategic planning.
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Continuous Improvement - Part 1: Introduction to Operational Best Practices
CMTC Manufacturing Tech
APRIL 24, 2025
This blog is the first in a three-part series introducing CMTCs approach to operational best practices through continuous improvement. Continuous improvement is the process of systematically identifying and eliminating waste within your manufacturing and administrative processes, workflows, and services.
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