While food and drink are essential for basic human survival, today’s food and beverage producers face a raft of challenges. There’s the rising specter of... Read more
Standardized work is a series of specific steps and procedures to make manufacturing processes safer and more efficient. Standardized work is a core concept in... Read more
Even prior to COVID-19, Industry 4.0 was gaining momentum among manufacturers. During the global pandemic to present day, the role of Industry 4.0 has become... Read more
Almost everything in our world has been digitized to some extent. Newspapers are now digital, books are eBooks, and letters are emails. The same goes... Read more
Operational agility is an organization’s ability to adapt its regular processes and technology to accommodate changes in the market. Companies with an agile culture can... Read more
Autonomous maintenance (AM) is a critical part of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). The idea here is that autonomous maintenance provides operators with the responsibility to... Read more
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the role of paper in our daily lives is rapidly diminishing. However, many manufacturers still use pen and... Read more
Your workday is starting off just like any other, but things are about to change, and quickly. Operations are stopped, leadership is scrambling. What went... Read more
In manufacturing and other industrial settings, digital work instructions provide relevant step-by-step information in an easily digestible and visual format, replacing outdated paper-based procedures. They... Read more