ATS

MARCH 20, 2024

The only way to succeed is to keep looking for ways to do things better, which is what fuels the drive for optimization of manufacturing processes. Optimizing a manufacturing process is like fine-tuning a race car. This blog dives into the subject of manufacturing optimization. What is process optimization?

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ATS

JUNE 12, 2024

A Pareto analysis is often displayed as a bar chart and it’s widely used in quality, maintenance and lean manufacturing. You’ll often see a Pareto chart in the manufacturing industry being used to explain why problems are being prioritized and addressed in the order they are. What is a Pareto chart? Rank the causes by magnitude.

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ATS

JULY 23, 2024

Share When product doesn’t meet the required standard it’s usually either scrapped or reworked. That’s why manufacturers serious about eliminating waste strive for Zero Defect Manufacturing. As a quality Mmanagement concept, Zero Defect Manufacturing underpins Lean and Six Sigma thinking. Both are expensive.

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ATS

MARCH 5, 2024

The purpose of this blog is to let the maintenance department know how they can influence FPY and why they should seek out opportunities to do that. First pass yield example Working through the formula with numbers from a hypothetical manufacturing process will illustrate how it should be used. What is first pass yield?

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Share Availability, quality and performance are essential indicators of manufacturing performance, and all can be enhanced with industrial remote monitoring. This blog explains what the term means and introduces the technology involved. This enables quick responses that reduce unplanned downtime and improve OEE.

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ATS

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Companies are swapping to greener technologies and reducing their carbon emissions, and the market is responding. For production facilities, this means upgrading your manufacturing processes and maintenance tasks. You might have heard this referred to as “eco-friendly” or “green” manufacturing in the past.

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ATS

JUNE 4, 2024

Even small improvements in industrial energy efficiency can yield significant cost savings, reduce emissions and support sustainability goals. This blog explores how a close look at energy consumption will help achieve higher operational efficiency in manufacturing. The next step is an energy audit.

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ATS

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This blog explains what that is and how it helps. Managers understand this, and in most organizations, they’ve implemented some form of maintenance to reduce the risk of these unplanned events. No longer focused on preventing unplanned downtime and reducing costs, in precision maintenance there’s an emphasis on making improvements.

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ATS

JULY 16, 2024

Share No manufacturing business will be successful for long without keeping a very close eye on costs. While there are a host of business functions, each with its own costs, the number that matters most in terms of profitability is the Total Manufacturing Cost. It begins by answering the question, “What is Total Manufacturing Cost?”

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ATS

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Share Artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance and digital twins are just some of the new things happening in manufacturing right now. Most, though, are still trying to make sense of this digital transformation in manufacturing. In this blog, we’ll examine the change that’s underway and the key technologies driving it.

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ATS

MAY 14, 2024

Share Minimizing unplanned downtime should be a priority in every manufacturing plant. This blog explores the topic of machine downtime and gives readers some tools for finding and addressing the root causes. Machine downtime gives supervisors and managers fits because it reduces available capacity.

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ATS

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. How can ATS help?

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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.

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ATS

MARCH 18, 2024

The purpose of quality control in manufacturing is to prevent this from happening. This blog explores quality control practices in manufacturing. What is quality control in manufacturing? Rather, it leverages quality control practices in manufacturing for the benefit of the organization.

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ATS

MARCH 6, 2025

Share Value stream mapping (VSM) is a core component of lean manufacturing. It helps companies identify waste, streamline processes and reduce costs. In practice, value stream mapping in the manufacturing industry starts with a current state map, which illustrates existing material and information flows throughout the organization.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

By consistently refining processes, businesses can reduce costs, enhance responsiveness, and increase overall capacity, all while boosting customer satisfaction. This blog is the first in a three-part series introducing CMTCs approach to operational best practices through continuous improvement. Nothing more, nothing less.

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iBASEt

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While this approach may have worked well for some, recent developments in open standards, AI, and the need to share data across systems are leading A&D manufacturers to choose open-architecture systems from various providers. Companies had to scrap all the work that was done and start again from scratch.

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