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How Every Department Benefits From Smart Factory Applications
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Manufacturing is a team effort. In fact, it might just be one of the greatest team...
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a lean method that focuses on optimizing the effectiveness of manufacturing equipment. Total Productive Maintenance builds upon established equipment management approaches and focuses on team-based maintenance that involves employees at every level and function.
Just-in-Time is a production scheduling concept that calls for any item needed at a production operation, whether raw material, finished item, or anything in between, to be produced and available precisely when needed. It is achieved with careful planning and analysis.
Six Sigma denotes a target level of quality that is six times the standard deviation. This means that defects only occur approximately 3.4 times per million opportunities, representing high quality and minimal process variability. Six Sigma methods are used to support and guide organizational continual improvement activities.
By using Six Sigma statistical tools, companies are able to diagnose the root causes of performance gaps and variability, thereby improving productivity and product quality. Six Sigma borrows martial arts ranking terminology to define practitioner roles.
Many different functional members may participate in Kaizen. Kaizen refers to the incremental and continual improvement of production activities aimed at reducing waste, and designed around planned, structured worker-oriented events. Kaizen is a combination of two Japanese words meaning “to take apart” and “make good.”
Muda is a Japanese term meaning "waste" and focuses on any activity or process that absorbs resources, but creates no real value (i.e., waste; activities and results to be eliminated). Categories of waste in Lean include: defects, overproduction, transport of materials, unnecessary movement, waiting, inventory, and over-processing.
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What makes L2L so unique is the fact that the product was developed by real manufacturing users. People that truly understand the day-to-day issues and concerns that drive the production floor.