Today’s fast-paced, intricate goods manufacturing industry wouldn’t be where it is without some smart logistics. In this article, we’ll explore one of these techniques – kitting – and how kitting operations can be used to improve the efficiency of product shipments. What Is Kitting? Kitting is a technique used in logistics to simplify and streamline…
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Want a more productive and cost-efficient manufacturing process? With process improvement services like line balancing, you can level the workload across different processes in a value stream to mitigate excess capacity and bottlenecks. To achieve manufacturing optimization, you need a fast production rate, reduce waiting waste, and minimize downtime. That’s where line balancing can help.…
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In any manufacturing setting, it’s crucial to have a well-oiled machine — quite literally. Every piece of the manufacturing process must work in tandem to create the final product. Unfortunately, manufacturing is a complex process with many potential points of failure. If one cog in the wheel is missing or broken, the entire process can…
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Bringing great ideas to life is a process. In order to bring an idea to fruition, logistics management is used by an organization to plan out materials needed for implementation, production and more. Without planning, there’s chaos – and a good chance that the project will never actually get completed. What Is Logistics Management? Logistics…
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Workforce optimization is a difficult task for many business owners and HR managers, but it can produce long-term benefits. By breaking things down into simpler steps, the process also becomes much easier in the long run.
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The 5S theory is implemented to mitigate waste while maximizing productivity by keeping the work environment organized and utilizing visual cues to obtain more persistent outcomes.
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Value stream mapping or VSM is a lean production method for analyzing, designing, and managing the flow of materials and information to get a product or service to a customer. It relies on certain standardized symbols to note information flows and work streams. Those that add value to the process and to the customer are…
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Six Sigma is a set of techniques and management tools designed to improve quality and make business processes more efficient. It does this using statistics instead of relying on guesswork or intuition. Engineers at Motorola proposed the Six Sigma model in the 1980s. What does Six Sigma mean? In statistics, the Greek letter Sigma (σ)…
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PPAP is a procedure companies use to ensure that the quality of parts manufactured by suppliers is up to standard. PPAP is an acronym for Product Part Approval Process. It ensures the manufacture and supply of parts are consistent. PPAP originates from the automotive and aerospace manufacturing industry. PPAP involves an 18-step process to ensure…
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APQP is an acronym for Advanced Product Quality Planning. APQP is all about making use of customer opinion and expectations during product planning. It involves clearly understanding what customers want from a product and then planning accordingly to meet their expectations. APQP is especially useful for companies involved in producing new and improved products. These…
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