Shops face increasing pressure to set themselves apart from their customers’ other options – and increasing difficulty in finding ways to do so. When they look for ways to improve operational efficiency, they focus on the shop floor, investing in the latest machine tools to make parts with greater speed and precision and…
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Continuous improvement is critical to manufacturing success. Stay still and the competition will pass you; fall behind and other shops won’t give you a chance to catch up. But how do you define your strategy so you’re poised to increase your productivity? From our experience, the items below include broad explanations of where…
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For manufacturers around the world, high-mix/low-volume (HMLV) production isn’t a trendy new way of processing parts – it’s a requirement to meet rapid changes in consumer demand and keep pace with just in time (JIT) manufacturing. To maximize throughput in this new production ecosystem, which involves smaller batches of increasingly customized parts, there…
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