If there’s one thing worse than downtime for manufacturers, it’s unexplained downtime. You’re doing everything right – keeping up with your suppliers’ preventive maintenance schedules, giving your team plenty of training opportunities, integrating the latest technology – but when the output numbers arrive at the end of the month, you’re still falling short…
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Keeping a well-organized tool crib can quickly become a full-time job – or the work of an entire department – as shops grow in size and start working with a higher mix of materials and applications. Things only get more complex in high-mix/low-volume production environments, where the number of tool references can quickly…
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Product designers, applications engineers and machine programmers can spend hundreds of hours optimizing critical parts to maximize output. Other manufacturing professionals spend less time optimizing individual jobs and focus on using machines and tools designed for the utmost in production flexibility and throughput. But no matter how a shop arranges its manufacturing environment…
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The promises of Industry 4.0 – enhanced productivity, work capacity and savings – appear enticing, but in many smaller manufacturing firms, everyone from the owner to the shop floor chases a long list of must-do tasks, leaving little time to think about how to improve the status quo. Some of the most-asked questions…
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