Lean vs. Six Sigma – What’s the Difference?
What’s the difference between Lean vs. Six Sigma? Six Sigma eliminates defects and waste while improving quality and efficiency inevitably improving business processes. Lean streamlines manufacturing and production processes by cutting out unnecessary and...
How to Leverage Data Visualization in Manufacturing?
How can you keep up in manufacturing without data to provide helpful insights into your factory floor? Once data is gathered, how can you use data visualization in manufacturing? Data visualization can help point out patterns and help to not overlook those patterns....
Machine / Operator Analytics, Employee Engagement, and Productivity
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” – Tom Peters, Author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies Modern Industry has always sought to measure...
What is Manufacturing Excellence?
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford (supposedly) Manufacturing excellence is a broad term. For some manufacturers it represents simply a production benchmark, a set of “world-class”...