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Make Gains Stick with the Continuous Improvement Tracker

You ran the kaizen event. You saw the improvement. But two months later… is anything actually different? It’s a challenge every CI leader faces. Gains made during Lean or Six Sigma initiatives often
MachineMetrics / Jun 05, 2025

Closing the Gap Between Scheduling and Execution with the...

Manufacturing schedules look great on paper—until they meet the real world. Every day, jobs run late. Machines sit idle. Priorities shift. And despite everyone’s best efforts, it’s hard to answer one
MachineMetrics / May 28, 2025

Real-Time Job Tracking Delivers Clarity to the Chaos of the...

Even the most capable ERP system can only tell you what was planned. It can’t tell you what’s actually happening on the floor, right now. For most discrete manufacturers, job tracking still relies on
MachineMetrics / May 21, 2025

Tariffs & the Factory: What Plant Leaders Can Do to Fight...

Executive Snapshot Tariff policy has shifted sharply in the past 18 months, squeezing margins for U.S. discrete-manufacturing plants. Metal duties remain in force, a new 25% levy on imported vehicles
MachineMetrics / May 01, 2025
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    Lean manufacturing in the food industry
    Lean Manufacturing / July 13, 2018
    Lean manufacturing is useful in the food industry, too! Baking Business said, "With so many advances in technology today, it’s easy to assume that automation is the key to streamlining efficiency....

    Lean manufacturing and happy employees.
    Lean Manufacturing / April 30, 2018
    Lean manufacturing techniques can bring more than just a better OEE. Industry Week said, "Any operator or maintenance person I’ve ever talked to has a much better day when the machine is running...

    Merging different lean strategies
    Lean Manufacturing / April 25, 2018
    Lean manufacturing is not one size meets all. Industry Week said, "Manufacturing acquisitions, mergers, takeovers and other combinations are inevitable. So too is the eventual meeting of two distinct...

    Cutting tools and lean manufacturing
    Lean Manufacturing / April 23, 2018
    Woodworking Network said, "High quality, innovative tool manufacturing and servicing companies can be a partner in these lean initiatives both now, with more basic tool management strategies, and in...

    Save money with 3D printing
    Lean Manufacturing / March 21, 2018
    3D printing can save manufacturers money while opening up customization options. For example, "At the recent ARPA-e conference, organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, scientists from the...
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