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First Pass Yield in Manufacturing

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An important productivity metric, FPY highlights wasteful production and can be an important stimulus for improvement efforts. 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. In a full hour it will produce 100 parts.

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Process Optimization in Manufacturing

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Share A business that doesn’t keep improving will soon be eclipsed by its competitors. 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.

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Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis in Manufacturing

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Share Most manufacturing processes are extremely complex, and there are many ways in which things can go wrong. Manufacturers use it proactively to avoid unplanned machine downtime, maintain consistent levels of quality and prevent accidents. What is PFMEA? How does PFMEA work?

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Part Monitoring & Maintenance for Aircraft Manufacturing

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While good news for airlines, this is putting the aerospace parts manufacturing industry under intense sustained pressure. The challenge, besides meeting demanding quality expectations, will be to find the additional production capacity needed. This blog reviews the maintenance challenges in aircraft part manufacturing.

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What is Track and Trace in Manufacturing?

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Share In any modern manufacturing company, there’s an overwhelming need to be efficient. In this guide, our manufacturing experts will answer the question, “What is track and trace?”. We’ll teach you how it works, provide examples and show you how different industries use a track and trace system. What is being tracked?

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Industrial IoT

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Share Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves in the world of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), improving all aspects of manufacturing from predictive maintenance solutions to vital operations technologies. predictive maintenance has become a key aspect of the manufacturing process.

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Maintenance Engineers

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Share Expectations for manufacturing equipment are rising: Managers want better availability and less process variation. The job of maintenance engineers is to maximize the reliability, availability, safety and output of manufacturing machinery within a plant. What is a maintenance engineer?