How to make an 8d report
An 8D report, also known as the Eight Disciplines problem-solving methodology, is a structured approach used in the business and manufacturing sectors to identify, correct, […]
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OEE and OTE Factors for Production System Design
OEE Calculation example OEE is formulated as a function of a number of mutually exclusive components, such as availability efficiency, performance efficiency, and quality efficiency […]
Lay-Out Impact on OEE
Finally, it is important to consider how the focus of the design may vary according the type of production system. In flow-shop production system the […]
How Equipment Time-Losses Influence the System Performance and Vice-Versa
The OEE of each equipment, as isolated machine (independent by other station) is affected only by (5),(6) and (7) theoretical intrinsic value. But once the […]
The formulation of OEE
In this paragraph we will provide process designer with a set of topics that need to be addressed when considering the OEE during the design […]
Design of a production system – several time-losses
For the design of a production system several time-losses, of different nature, need to be considered. Literature is plenty of classifications in this sense, although […]
Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for Manufacturing System Design
Different metrics for measuring and analyzing the productivity of manufacturing systems have been studied for several decades. The traditional metrics for measuring productivity were throughput […]
PDCA Industrial case study
The aim of this work is to present establishments of the basic model of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) quality management for the production system at […]
Difference between efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
Difference between efficiency and productivity Productivity is defined as the actual output over the actual input (e.g. number of final products per employee), and both […]
Fundamentals of OEE
“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.”(Lord Kelvin) It is a common opinion that productivity improvement is nowadays the biggest challenge […]
KAIZEN BLITZ, tackling symptoms not causes
Imagine you wake up one morning realising you have a sore head, the usual remedies don’t work, you think it may even be something quite […]
Key Performance Indices and Key Activity Indicators
In World Class Manufacturing the focus is on continuous improvement. As organizations adopt world class manufacturing, they need new methods of performance measurement to check […]
WCM Pillars: Description and Features
WCM foresees 10 technical pillars and 10 managerial pillars. The levels of accomplishment in technical fields are indirectly affected by the level of accomplishment in […]
WCM Mission and Principles
The process to achieve “World Class Manufacturing” (WCM) has a number of philosophies and elements that are common for all companies. Therefore, when applied to […]
Improving Operations Performance with WCM Technique: A Case in Automotive Industry
Manufacturers in many industries face worldwide competitive pressures. These manufacturers must provide high-quality products with leading-edge performance capabilities to survive, much less prosper. The automotive […]
The main tools for World Class Manufacturing: Features and description
WCM requires all decisions to be made based on objective measured data and its analysis. Therefore, all the traditional data analysis tools such as scatter […]
What is a Fishbone Diagram?
Also Called: Cause and Effect Diagram. A fishbone diagram helps team members visually diagram a problem or condition’s root causes, allowing them to truly diagnose […]
IATF 16949 Standard adds requirements
Of the 28 main sections of ISO 9001:2015, the IATF 16949 Standard adds requirements under 22 of them. The table shows where there are additional […]
MTBF, MTTR, MTTF & FIT – Explanation of Terms
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) Is a reliability term used to provide the amount of failures per million hours for a product. This is the […]
Process Type
Many organisations feel that the issues and problems they face are unique to themselves. Fortunately this is not true and therefore we are able to […]
Theory of Constraints (TOC)
What is it? TOC is a thinking process designed to help organizations focus their effort during a continuous improvement process. The focusing methodology follows these […]
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
What is TPM? The focus of TPM is on equipment and people with the objective being the elimination of all forms of equipment losses. Equipment […]
What is Lean Thinking?
Lean Thinking is about making continuous improvements to enhance business performance. A number of Continuous Improvement philosophies and techniques have evolved. These include, Total Productive […]
Relationship Life Cycles and Net Markets
However, one might ask, “where does the relationship life cycle fit with all this talk of the New Economy?” The answer to this question is […]
Defining the Relationship Life Cycle
The Relationship Life Cycle is the next phase beyond the customer life cycle. The customer life cycle assumed that a seller should simply aggregate the […]
Defining Collaboration
All companies communicate with their partners using three basic building blocks. They Exchange, Integrate and/or Collaborate Exchange is the realm of the EDI providers or […]
CPFR Implementation Guidelines From the Manufacturer’s Perspective
Step 1: Identify Comparison Opportunities Sales Forecasts Unless a manufacturer has implemented Vendor Managed Inventory, or has assumed the technology to support VMI, this can […]
Pareto Diagram
In the generation of science basically there are lots of improvements are shown in the society with the help of the sciences. Science has enhanced […]