ENHANCE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY ON THE MANUFACTURING MAP
Manufacturing involves making decisions and solving problems. The entire process fits into four essential steps – and Seco Manufacturing Transformation solutions can help you work through them with efficient productivity.
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MANUFACTURING MAP
Promise
When you agree to produce a job, you promise your customer three things: quantity, quality and timeliness. To keep those promises, your shop needs to be ready to perform.
Actions
Promise what you can deliver.
Either improve your planning capabilities or enhance your shop with new knowledge and equipment.
Common Challenges
Estimate required resources realistically, including time, materials and readiness.
Avoid “we’ll figure it out later” promises that you’re not certain you can keep.
Engineering
To translate your promise into action, identify how you’ll fulfill the order: steps, processes, equipment and resources.
Actions
Analyze each job carefully to determine what it requires.
Manage your in-house resources and capabilities to create the ideal process for job production, one you can implement cohesively.
Common Challenges
Ensure that you’re really ready to go, and that you understand any potential for setbacks in the process you formulate.
Keep your equipment in top shape with routine and scheduled maintenance.
Machining
Time to cut parts – and monitor the process to manage problems so your output matches what you promised to deliver.
Actions
Manage your processes to produce successful results.
Predict and avoid unprofitable emergencies.
Common Challenges
Check your process to ensure that everything’s running correctly.
Manage quality control to avoid scrap and waste.
Planning
Once you identify what you need for a job, find and prepare your resources.
Actions
Acquire the tools and materials you need.
Prepare the right setup for uninterrupted machining.
Common Challenges
Verify that everything you need for success will be available exactly when you need it.
Manage tool and material inventory to avoid downtime.
Explore how we’ve helped other shops – large and small, from diverse industries – so they can understand their strengths, minimize weaknesses and expand their ability to foresee and meet manufacturing challenges.
Make Seco your one-stop destination for in-depth information about cutting tools, processes, strategies and the decisions that can make your jobs – and your shop – an even greater success.
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