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Edge computing platforms for industrial IoT 2027: AWS Greengrass, Azure IoT Edge, Siemens Industrial Edge, Litmus Edge — comparison
TL;DR · Edge computing platforms for industrial IoT in 60 words Industrial edge computing platforms 2027: AWS IoT Greengrass v2 (Lambda@Edge, ML inference, AWS ecosystem), Azure IoT Edge (Docker...
Supply Chain Integration: How OEE Impacts Your Suppliers and Customers
When we talk about OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), we immediately think of the shop floor: machine availability, production rates, scrap. OEE impacts suppliers and customers well beyond the workshop, yet most manufacturers still treat it as a purely internal performance indicator. Reducing OEE to a number displayed on a production screen ignores the fact that […]
OEE in Make-to-Order vs. Make-to-Stock Production: Guide to Optimization Strategies
OEE for make-to-order vs. make-to-stock production is a topic that most manufacturers are unaware of. A factory that produces to stock and a factory that produces to order may use the same machines and the same ERP. But the way OEE impacts their performance, production planning, and profitability […]
Impact of 5S on OEE: How Workplace Organization Improves Industrial Efficiency
The impact of 5S on OEE is a topic that is underestimated by most manufacturers. 5S is often reduced to a tidying exercise, a cosmetic exercise that is brought out before an audit or a customer visit. This is a fundamental misunderstanding. 5S is a direct lever for improving OEE, and factories […]
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Ergonomics, a necessary step in your Lean approach
Ergonomics at the workstation is an important principle in Lean management. It helps to avoid disturbing situations, while at the same time generating added value. Taking ergonomics into account helps to reduce movements and their impact…
Will Lean Manufacturing have an impact beyond the shop floor?
In 1913, when Henry Ford was setting up a highly productive organisation based on flow, we were not yet talking about Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office or even Lean. Today, we can safely say that he was the first to use these concepts…
Controlling or piloting, a nuance that makes all the difference.
Whether it’s quality, performance or safety, we instinctively think of control as a way of feeding indicators. But what is control?
Which technology is best: MES or expert bricks?
MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) are an important link in the chain of production performance monitoring. They provide the link between the sensors, actuators and PLCs that are essential for feeding back production information, and the ERP systems that have become the standard for global production management over the last century. They are far more comprehensive than the expert bricks…
Industry’s good resolutions for 2021
Now that employees have brought the workshops back to life after the holidays, it’s time to make some good collective resolutions. Collective’ implies the entire workforce of a plant. The good resolutions will be ‘best-practices’. They depend on the sector of activity, but are applicable to all companies…
5 levels of maintenance to put under the Christmas tree
As the festive season approaches, manufacturers are taking stock. How productive were their machines this year? At the plants surveyed, around 5% of unplanned stoppages were due to breakdowns or maintenance in 2020….
The 7 wastes of Lean: how to get rid of them?
After rebounding slightly in July, French industrial production is now struggling to return to pre-crisis growth levels, with an increase of just 1.3% in the fourth quarter. With the exception of the food industry, the other sectors are particularly vulnerable and exposed, so manufacturers need to produce more efficiently. The best way to do this is to focus on the 7 areas of waste…
How can you improve your machine performance with a dedicated monitoring tool?
As a manufacturer, your main challenge is to achieve quality production with the best possible equipment availability and maximum machine performance
Yet manual methods of measuring performance are still widespread, time-consuming and unreliable: it is estimated that they cause plants to lose between 5 and 30 performance points…
What tools are needed for a Lean deployment using the DMAIC method?
Most of the time, when people ask for a definition of Lean, the answer given is often a list of tools, which in no way reflects the approach.
Knowledge and mastery of Lean tools is central, but knowing how to provide a good diagnosis is vital. The two work together and are indissociable…
What indicators should you use to measure the performance of your machines?
To achieve the objectives of a Lean approach focused on machine performance, it is necessary to exploit all the data linked to machine performance and availability.
In this article, we will look at a selection of indicators to be used for a pertinent analysis of your machines’ productivity…
Our long-standing customer Nutriset wins the ‘Productivity Trophy’.
The 2020 Plant Productivity Trophy has been awarded to Nutriset, one of TeepTrak’s long-standing customers. 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…
People at the heart of Lean and continuous improvement in business
The Lean approach is based on the continuous improvement of procedures to achieve results in terms of business performance. However, it is often reduced to the implementation of tools and methods without taking the human aspect into account… Elle est pourtant souvent réduite à la mise en place d’outils et méthodes sans prendre en compte l’humain…
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