If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught the manufacturing industry, it’s the value of being prepared. That’s why we launched a new preventative maintenance program — to help our customers keep their production lines running even in the face of unexpected...
If your company is like most in the manufacturing sector, maintenance is your largest fixed cost. By the time you factor in all of the components — downtime, parts, labor, etc. — maintenance takes a big chunk out of your bottom line. Now for the tough...
New solution increases throughput by using accumulation technology to feed parallel processing machines. BLUE ANCHOR, N.J. (PRWEB) AUGUST 17, 2021 To speed up their production lines, many manufacturers employ parallel stations at one or more steps in the process. For...
Unplanned downtime is the worst. Literally. Here are stats and estimates from around the internet: Factories lose at least 5% and up to 20% of productivity due to downtime (widely cited estimate). A single hour of downtime costs most organizations $100,000 to $300,000...
There is no shortage of key performance indicators (KPIs) you could be tracking. And, no doubt, they will all give you insight into some aspect of your operations. But not all KPIs are directly related to profitability and growth. You may spend time and energy (and...
We’ve written a lot on this blog about what throughput is and the steps you can take to maximize it (download the guide). In this article, we’ll look at the issue through a different lens: manufacturing throughput time. What is manufacturing throughput time?...
