Visual controls are the major part in any stream of business. May be Production, Road transport, Railway stations and in home appliances. Andon is a visual management tool used in lean manufacturing to communicate the status of production to the operators or the production team. The status can be Break down, Material Shortage, Quality issue, […]
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OEE is one of the key factors in calculating efficiency of an Automation or machines. If any factory OEE is more than 85% than the utilization of Automation or machines is very good. In this article we will learn how to increase OEE by eliminating or reducing 6 Big Losses. Following are the 6 Big
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Gemba walk can be defined as “A Regular or Scheduled walkthrough through the factory, which focuses on Elimination of Non value added activities (NVAs) in producing a product” Lean methodologies are growing very aggressively in all facilities and brands. Almost all products and services require Lean execution. To make things simple and effective. Today we
Factory layout design is the process of arranging and organizing elements of a manufacturing facility. Physical spaces, equipment, machinery, workstation, materials, and people are some of the elements of a manufacturing facility. Following points is to be considered while designing the factory layout design; In this article we are going to discuss following points related
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Automation ROI calculator excel helps on decision on investment on automations easily. Also how this calculations are done is also explained.
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