Productivity is one of the most popular word used in the manufacturing or business or competitive world. People who are cost conscious often use this word. Confused?… I will clear the confusion. What is productivity? Productivity can be defined in following way… Productivity is a measure of how much output is produced per unit input. […]
If you are a job seeker, team Leader or even if you are a HR professional, you should certainly use skill matrix. Skill matrix is something you have either heard a lot about it or you haven’t heard it all. But whatever is your state right now, by the end of this article you’ll have
These three names, Muda, Mura and Muri do not sounds familiar to our normal language slang because these are the Japanese words. Muda is the Japanese word for waste, Mura is the Japanese word for unevenness and, Muri is the Japanese word for Overburden. These words represents anything, which is against lean manufacturing. So, initially
Logistics is a significant function in the manufacturing industry since it influences the overall efficiency and competitiveness of the firms involved. Preparing optimum transportation plans can be considered as a starting point in achieving efficiency in logistics management. Different tools and techniques related to Industrial Engineering and Operations Research are being used to improve logistics...
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The company makes a product for the customer or offer services to the customer, but what if the customer is not happy? Will the company still grow in the market? The straight answer is “NO”. A customer is someone who decides the brand value for a company. For the company to adapt to the situation
You can save above 95% of your working time with excel, if your doing highly repetitive tasks in excel. This can be done easily with the help of record macro function in the Microsoft Excel, even if you don’t have any coding skill . And this article on ‘How to record a macro in excel’
Have you ever faced a situation where you or your team have multiple solutions for a given problem but you don’t know where to start from? Or you have implemented various improvement ideas but it couldn’t bring a lot of change? If yes, then don’t worry! We have got your back and after this article
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Before we go to our subject, lets discuss about what is ‘CLIT’. And later we will discuss the relation between CLIT and Autonomous Maintenance. And we will also discuss, How CLIT sheet helps to achieve the goals of Autonomous Maintenance with example. What is CLIT ? CLIT is a short word represent the activities Clean,
The ultimate aim of value stream mapping (VSM) is to save money or reduce production cost. To save money, we need to initially identify which all things or activities are consuming money without delivering any value to the customer. I think you all know what is a value, its anything which customer is willing to pay for.
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Work Sampling is an Industrial Engineering tool for analyzing work. By analyzing the work through work sampling, we will be able to calculate the amount of work content in terms of percentage of available working time and also it can be used to evaluate the proportions of total time of work devoted to the various
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