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What if you could shave 30 minutes off each employee’s transportation time? This could mean hundreds of thousands of euros per year, not to mention the gains from up to a 30% increase in efficiency.

In the last year, we have seen a strong trend towards real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance. In this article we take a brief look at the current and future best practices, and discuss opportunities for increasing your process engineering ROI.

The key principle of Lean manufacturing is moving towards the elimination of all waste to develop a faster, more dependable operation that operates at a low cost and produces higher quality products and services.

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Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a Lean manufacturing tool that visually maps out the flow of materials and information within a process.(Wang, Ren & Bhaba, 2005)

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) provides the necessary methods, concepts and tools to change a process.(Snee, 2010) One of the main methodologies of LSS is Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC). (Kara- Zaitri, 2013)

The term quality has been used more as industries have been developing and trying to reach excellence through different teachings and methodologies. Though the term has been centralized there are different opinions about what the word itself means.

If you’re reading this, then there is a good chance that – like many manufacturing companies – you’re still using Excel as the all-in-one tool to create and store time and motion study data. Here’s how to supercharge that process.

Our client managed to save 40h of their specialists’ time spent on increasing production efficiency in one month, simply by automating time and motion study data collection using flowbase.io