Ergonomics at the workstation is an important principle in lean management. It allows to avoid disturbing situations, while generating added value. Taking ergonomics into account allows us to reduce movements and their impacts. Unnecessary or poorly thought-out...
In 1913, Henry Ford set up a highly productive organization based on flow, but Lean Manufacturing was not yet spoken of. Today, it is safe to say that he was the first to use these concepts. The real birth of Lean took place in a workshop, just before the World War II...
Whether in terms of quality, performance or safety, control is often the solution chosen to feed the indicators. But what is controling? Controling is the action of checking something, someone, to verify their state or their situation with respect to a standard, so it...
This is nothing new, MES (for Manufacturing Execution Systems) are a very important link in the monitoring of production performance. They provide the link between sensors, actuators and PLCs, which are essential for production data feedback, and the ERP systems that...
While employees have brought the workshops back to life after the vacations, it's time to make good collective resolutions. The "collective" involves all the employees in a plant. Good resolutions will be "best-practices". Good resolutions will become the...
As the end of the year festivities are coming, it is time for plant manager to take stock. How productive were the machines this year? Among the plants surveyed, approximately 5% of unplanned stoppages are due to machine breakdowns in 2020. For a third of them,...
Propelled more than 50 years ago by Toyota, Lean is today widely known and spread in many companies. It can even be said that companies that use Lean are more successful than others. Indeed, several studies show that companies applying Lean have a higher performance...
After a slight rebound in July, French industrial production is now struggling to regain its pre-crisis level of growth with an increase of only 1.3% in the fourth quarter. With the exception of the food-processing industry, the other sectors are particularly fragile...
As a manufacturer with machines, your main challenge is quality production with the best equipment availability and maximum performance. So when you notice performance problems, you will quickly realize that the manual methods used to measure performance losses are no...
Most of the time, when we ask for a definition of Lean, the answer given is often a list of tools, which does not reflect the approach at all. The knowledge and mastery of Lean tools is central but knowing how to provide a good diagnosis is crucial, the two work...
To achieve the objectives of a Lean approach focused on machine performance, it is necessary to exploit all data related to machine performance and availability. We will therefore discuss in this article a selection of indicators to be used for a relevant analysis of...
To meet this challenge, the company deployed our PerfTrak, MoniTrak and ProcessTrak solutions. Today, more than 18 systems are in continuous operation, enabling Nutriset to combat world hunger more effectively. As a result, in three years, the company has gained 14...