Author: Mark Carleton
Agent EyeQ: Making Your Production Supervisor’s Role More Effective
For anyone who has managed a production floor, you’ll know that one of the lynchpins of the operation is your team leaders and supervisors. These are your eyes and ears around the shopfloor. They know how to make things run smoothly, they know what tends to cause problems, and they’ve typically built-up years of experience across a range of areas. As people operating directly in that environment, they are uniquely placed to manage daily operations and deliver results. The question is: how do you leverage this valuable resource even more?
Six Key Requirements for Effective Planning and Scheduling
Optimizing a modern-day manufacturing facility is a complex task. Manufacturers face an overwhelming array of conflicting demands, including reducing stock, improving lead times, increasing asset utilization and lowering overtime, all while cutting costs. This seemingly impossible challenge is further complicated by harsh constraints such as the availability of skilled labor, machine breakdowns, demand volatility and unreliable supply chains.
What’s New 9.4.0 Product Manager Overview
Please register to join our ‘What’s New’ presentation where our Product Manger, Lucy Irish, will walk through all the new functionality available in the latest release.
Total Quality Management System – QMS at the Next Level
What Is TQMS? A Total Quality Management System (TQMS) is a way to manage manufacturing so that quality is built into every step, not inspected at the end. Instead of asking, “Who made this error?”; TQMS asks: Why did you make this error? How can you keep this from happening again in the future? The …
Case Study – Boosting Productivity and Quality Control
At Eyelit, we face the same issue as all solutions providers: how to convey the practical value that our technology delivers? How can we show the day-to-day benefits of our tools, and also demonstrate the way we help customers advance more strategic priorities such as cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives?
