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How to Optimize Quality with Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is key in quality management. It gives real-time insights to keep process performance and product quality high. This method is essential in manufacturing for tracking processes and cutting unwanted variations. SPC lets companies enhance their processes,...

All Production KPIs to Monitor and improve Production Efficiency

Are you making the most of every tool at your disposal to enhance production? Knowing and using the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can change your operation’s success. These metrics help reduce downtime and plan production better, showing every...

Lean Production Bench Basics

The operators may move fast on the production line, make straightforward repetitive tasks and put their best effort into it ... this is by far not the fastest production technics. And a camera or a supervisor shouting on his...

Most Used 99 Acronyms in Product Design, R&D and Manufacturing

A Must Know: acronyms are used everywhere in technical publications, and it is helpful to regroup the ones specific to Product Design, R&D, startup, and Innovation. We list here acronyms mostly related to mechanics, statistics, standards, project management, lean...

The 5 Japanese Lean Terms You Must Know in Manufacturing and Quality

For Manufacturing: the Japanese Lean terms are must-know vocabulary in manufacturing or quality as these have no direct equivalent and are used as-is in an industrial context. There are a variety of Japanese manufacturing lean terms, but we list here...

The 14 Lean Principles of The Toyota Way

To resume many of the lean principles of a company or attitude, one book is key. From the must-read book The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer (Dr Jeffrey Liker), Wikipedia, and other sources, with...

SMED where you wouldn’t imagine: magic tricks

Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is one of the lean methodologies developed initially by Shigeo Shingo in Japan to increase productivity by decreasing downtimes during change of tools. For big factory toolings, this is in reality usually still more...

Organize like F1 pros (SMED teamwork)

Want to increase production & team efficiency in a lean way with SMED? Want to achieve the shortest cycle time (with a lot of human resources)? Follow the organization of F1 pros from the RedBull team: SMED in Formula 1...
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