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Keys to a Safety Culture That Drives Revenue

Posted on Apr 24, 2023 9:00:00 AM

Competing priorities and deadlines are a part of any business, but it’s crucial to remember what matters most in any organization: its people. Plant management must not overlook the impact creating a strong safety culture has on business and revenue growth.

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Topics: Safety, Profitability, Culture

Leaving Millions of Dollars on the Table? Digitize SPC Charting for Immediate Returns

Posted on Mar 27, 2023 9:00:00 AM

In today's fast-paced world, manufacturers need to stay ahead of the game to remain competitive. Luckily, for many industries, beating the competition just means adopting a paperless production. 

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Topics: Profitability, Operations, Plant Management

How to Accurately Measure Cost of Quality in Today's Market

Posted on Mar 22, 2023 9:00:00 AM

Due to today's rapid evolution of food trends and a social media spotlight on all manufacturing brands, quality management is critical to attracting and retaining customers. Not even well-known, longstanding businesses have the reputation insulation they may have had several years ago. But how much does it cost to ensure quality, and what can businesses do to minimize those costs?

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Topics: Quality, Profitability

Addressing Labor Shortage: How to Increase Uptime While Empowering Employees

Posted on Nov 30, 2022 7:30:00 AM

The manufacturing industry is no stranger to labor shortages. In our webinar, Addressing Labor Shortage: How to Increase Uptime While Empowering Employees attendees agreed that high turnover and an inability to hire skilled workers were their two largest challenges. Jeremy Tancredi, Partner at West Monroe consultancy with over 20 years of experience in operational productivity for large distribution clients, covered several methods to overcome these issues.

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Topics: Profitability, Productivity

Process Optimization to Increase Productivity and Profits in Manufacturing

Posted on Oct 25, 2022 8:54:00 AM

Adopting the right technology and instituting new and innovative ways for process optimization in manufacturing is crucial to staying competitive in the manufacturing industry. For example, a leading frozen foods company with nine plants - used SafetyChain QMS to try and determine the cause of a faulty lot of frozen dumplings. In two hours, they were able to use technology to diagnose the root cause, make the appropriate adjustments, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We’ll go over the right steps to take to ensure you’re using the right resources for your process optimization, potential challenges to process optimization, and guidance for optimizing your processes.

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Topics: Profitability, Productivity

5 Ways to Improve Availability and Reliability with Proactive Maintenance

Posted on Jun 1, 2022 11:08:12 AM

How do we balance time and money when it comes to plant maintenance? It’s common for many organizations to rely upon reactive maintenance, and fixing problems as they occur. While this method can seem cost-effective initially, the costs will increase over time with extended downtime and greater unpredictability. Proactive maintenance, however, while generating a higher upfront cost, can lower overall maintenance costs, reduce equipment and employee downtime, and significantly increase asset availability.

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Topics: Profitability, Productivity, Maintenance

The OEE is in the Details: Three Hidden Gems of OEE Potential

Posted on Jan 19, 2022 1:24:49 PM

Since the 1970s, an increasing number of manufacturers have used the three components of availability, performance, and quality to calculate the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for determining how well a process is running. OEE is also used to identify areas of improvement. Understandably, most manufacturers target the more prominent areas of concern, which will generate a more dramatic or marked improvement. 

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Topics: Profitability, Productivity, Technology, OEE

Redefining OEE: Taking OEE from Abstract to Practical

Posted on Jan 12, 2022 3:08:28 PM

Although many manufacturers have implemented overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) over the last few decades, not every facility has embraced it effectively. Often facilities either knowingly or unknowingly neglect or overemphasize one of the three essential components of OEE. Manufacturers apply OEE inconsistently, include too much, or exclude unpleasant data. When used correctly, OEE is an excellent resource for driving continuous improvement in manufacturing facilities. Facilities that are struggling to meet goals or seeking to move up a few extra percentage points can gain the edge they need by returning to basics and evaluating processes honestly.

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Topics: Profitability, Productivity, Technology, OEE

Dollars and Sense: Why You Should Translate OEE into a Financial KPI

Posted on Jan 7, 2022 2:32:19 PM

Translating Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) into financial terms allows everyone from the plant floor operators to executives, measure continuous improvement and understand the business value of OEE. The challenge is making this a reality. This blog will dive into what it means to measure OEE, why you should translate that into financial terms, why OEE is important, and finally what role software plays.

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Topics: Profitability, Productivity, Technology, OEE

Safety Solutions: How Implementing EHS Software Can Drive Continuous Improvement

Posted on Dec 23, 2021 11:04:51 AM

Environmental health and safety regulations affect all manufacturing plants whether they utilize a software platform or not. More and more facilities are looking for cloud-based solutions and ways to optimize resources to remain competitive in the industry. Managing environmental health and safety manually is prone to human error, and can consume a significant amount of work hours that could instead be directed toward other, more productive tasks. Cloud-based solutions free up the hours workers and operators spent searching for documents or compiling data into reports. Your facility may already have a system in place for monitoring environmental health and safety issues but may be looking for a genuinely cloud-based, integrative solution. You may not have a digital process, or software program at all. However, as EHS regulations tighten and fines are increasing, the cost of not taking EHS seriously is on the rise. Attempting to monitor EHS manually is an impediment to continuous improvement. The average manufacturer pays nearly $20,000 per employee per year to comply with federal regulations. Knowing how expensive noncompliance can be, is environmental health and safety software that important? Let’s look at what it is and what it can do for your facility.

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Topics: Automation, Profitability, Technology, EHS

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