“In Japanese, Kaizen means “continuous improvement”. “The word implies improvement that involves everyone—both managers and workers”. Kaizen is for any organisation (manufacturing, process or service) whowishes to improve productivity, reduce costs and improve profitability and establish continuous improvement culture. [...]
The 5S approach is a simple but powerful method for shopfloor improvement. Progressive shopfloor improvement techniques are vital for companies who want to stay competitive and to achieve world-class excellence. Companies must find new ways to ensure the survival in [...]
Equipment failures and defects appear in two ways: as sporadic or chronic losses. Sporadic losses indicate sudden, often large deviations from the norm (current performance and quality levels). Chronic losses, on the other hand, indicate smaller, frequent deviations that gradually [...]
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a key measurement in the improvement approach called Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Before you begin learning about OEE, it is useful to understand a little bit about TPM. TPM is a companywide approach for improving [...]
First step is to measure the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) accurately and understand the losses. All Major losses should be selected for improvement project. Key methodology for OEE improvement is concept of TPM. TPM has 8 pillars and 4 pillars [...]
Companies implementing 5S experience many benefits from implementing the five pillars of 5S, such as increasing product diversity, raising quality, lowering costs, encouraging reliable deliveries, promoting safety, building customer confidence, and promoting corporate growth. Following are key benefits achieved from [...]
TPM means productive maintenance (activities in which all workers of a corporation are required to participate) and stands for total productive maintenance. T stands for "Total" P stands for "Productive" M stands for "Maintenance" Necessity of TPM and why TPM [...]
The concept of a Cellular Manufacturing applies to processes involving machines as well as to manual assembly, with improvement opportunities of the same magnitude but different challenges. Cellular Manufacturing is a set of collocated, physically linked machines performing a common sequence [...]
TPM is about maximising the overall effectiveness of equipment through the people who operate and maintain that equipment. In order to provide the essential link between equipment and people it is essential to identify a clear set of phases and [...]
Managing change is most difficult process in any organisation and requires support of external forces and systematic Implementation of steps of change management. Many of improvement initiatives fail because of lack of following steps of change management. Generally people are [...]
