Process Improvement in the Age of Smart Manufacturing

Process Improvement in the Age of Smart Manufacturing

by | Apr 4, 2022 | Blog

Process improvement projects have typically been a labor-intensive and imprecise process. Labor-intensive in that capturing the as-designed vs. the actual current-state process required facilitated meetings, interviews, surveys, and analyzing operational data over an...
Management Without Wandering Around – MWWA

Management Without Wandering Around – MWWA

by | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog

The Past – When I started in manufacturing in 1975, we were taught that the only way to know what was going on in operations was to wander around without a set destination – to look for anything that looks out-of-order, and to chat with a variety of operators...
The Mass Balance Approach To Chemical Manufacturing

The Mass Balance Approach To Chemical Manufacturing

by | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog

Let’s talk about the mass-balance concept of sustainability. There are no two ways about it – the world’s plastic waste problem has increased exponentially over the last several decades, between the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the devastating effects on sea...
Starting Your Journey to Smart Manufacturing

Starting Your Journey to Smart Manufacturing

by | Mar 28, 2022 | Blog

What is Smart manufacturing? Smart manufacturing is the business, technology, infrastructure, and workforce practice of optimizing manufacturing through the use of engineered systems that integrate operational technologies and information technologies (OT/IT),...
How to Make Henry Ford Jealous

How to Make Henry Ford Jealous

by | Mar 25, 2022 | Blog

Henry Ford revolutionized American industry by standardizing manufacturing with very efficient processes using start-of-the art equipment and with workers enjoying the highest wages of the time. There is a commonly held misconception that the revolution started by...
How Has Machine Learning Improved Supply Chain Control Towers?

How Has Machine Learning Improved Supply Chain Control Towers?

by | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog

When it comes to supply chain challenges, whether it be shipment delays, customs congestions, increased premium freight costs, supply and demand variability, quality issues — a lot can and does go wrong. Recent volatility as a result of the pandemic and now the crisis...