Process Improvement

Methods for getting more out of the production line you already have. These articles cover the Theory of Constraints and how to find and subordinate to your bottleneck, lean manufacturing, the KISS principle applied to manufacturing operations, and the difference between automating a process and improving it first. Often the cheapest capacity gain is not a new machine, and these pieces explain where to look.

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How to Get More Out of Your Factory

Get more throughput, more product and more cash out of your site. Learn how Automation can work with Lean and other process improvement methodologies. Check

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Lean – Part 2: Quality of the Process

Low Waste Processes In Part 1 of our Lean blog posts, we learned about the “Toyota Way” or the Toyota Production System (TPS) (https://www.toyota-europe.com/world-of-toyota/this-is-toyota/toyota-production-system) and

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Lean – Part 1: Make the time count

Time: our scarcest resource Lean Manufacturing is a methodology first brought to bear on Toyota’s assembly line in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. They

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Automation vs Optimisation:

Where should you start? OmnaTec had a great LinkedIn Live Panel last Wednesday with some great discussion around Automation vs Optimisation. I thought I would