Guntapudi Udayravichandra, Author at Know Industrial Engineering

An article on manual and automatic Andon in Lean Manufacturing.

Andon in Manufacturing

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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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Eliminate these 6 Big Losses to improve OEE

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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

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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

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Factory Layout Design

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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

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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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