Lean Manufacturing has always been known for ‘more enhancements’ and ‘less diminutions.’, But who knew that the theory could be applied to humans too? Yes, Lean Production has played a crucial role in evolving and improving workforce productivity through [...]
Medical Device manufacturing involves lot of manual work, thus faces challenges in manpower productivity. Various Lean Kaizen techniques can be used to improve the productivity. A leading medical devices (Rapid tests) manufacturer was facing following problems and approached RIB [...]
OEE stands for Overall Equipment Effectiveness. This is different from the efficiency of a machine which is Quantity produced in a certain time.OEE is a factor of the following elements shown below: Losses that reduce OEE: Losses that Impact [...]
The Indian Pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a very interesting shift; at one hand it is creating its own mark in the global landscape with its latest innovations/discoveries, while on the other hand, the fragmented Indian market is poised for [...]
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 [...]
Lean Manufacturing simply means eliminating waste from manufacturing processes including waste of work in progress and finished goods inventories. What is waste? Waste is any activity that consumes resources but creates no value. Every organisation has lot of scope to [...]
“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 [...]
