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Takt Time in Manufacturing

ATS

Share One of the tenets of lean manufacturing is that goods should flow like water through production. That flow is smoothed by determining the takt time and configuring manufacturing to achieve it. This blog explains takt time in manufacturing.

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Star SU Announces New Service Manager/Project Coordinator

Fabricating & Metal Work

These include analyzing processes and providing recommendations for cutting tool selection and cycle time reduction; conducting maintenance and operation training; diagnosing and repairing machines; troubleshooting software issues; and recommending part repair and replacement schedules.

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Medical-Spec Package Arrives in Ireland

i4.0 today

This not only delivers a faster cycle time but ensures the optimal product quality. “When there is no margin for error, the IntElect’s highly dynamic direct drive technology can react quicker to the injection speed changes. All of this results in a faster ROI.”

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Hybrid Milling/Drilling Machine Reduces Total Mold Machining Time

Mold Making Technology

For over 20 years, MSI has been firmly committed to lean manufacturing, applying Six Sigma and 5S principles to identify choke points, reduce waste, improve safety and quality, and increase productivity and customer satisfaction.

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K. Soundhar Rajhan, Chief Strategy Officer,  Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, shares highlights and insights from his more than five-decade journey with the iconic company

Dinesh Mishra

We actively engage in activities like lean manufacturing and accelerated competency development to enhance our manufacturing expertise. Continuous learning is paramount for LMW, and it is a key global best practice in the machine tools industry. Can you share with us the idea of the 4Ps? The first P represents Precision.

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Case Study: Lockheed Martin’s Flight to Perfect Quality

iBASEt

This combination of the Toyota production system, Lean Manufacturing and Six-Sigma is driving continual process improvements. This type of closed-loop quality system is essential to achieving higher levels of quality while improving cycle time and assuring regulatory compliance with AS9100 standards.

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Perspective: Harbec's green initiatives deliver bottom line results

Plastics News

Can cycle times be reduced to decrease energy consumption? Having renewable energy and a soon-to-be-installed 1 megawatt storage on-site helps Harbec mitigate those risks — a message not lost on customers who depend on "just-in-time" deliveries and "lean" manufacturing processes.