Understanding Machine Downtime
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Understanding Machine Downtime

Your shop floor machines are either actively running in production mode and or they are experiencing downtime. Hopefully, when the machines are expected to be running, they are performing the way they are designed to— unfortunately, this is where manufacturing can get tricky. Many manufacturers still rely on outdated pen-and-paper…

How to Adjust Shop Floor Operations After an Unexpected Slowdown
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How to Adjust Shop Floor Operations After an Unexpected Slowdown

Manufacturers operate in a dynamic environment. Order quantities rise and fall, customers’ taste change and older product lines decline as new ones come on stream. What almost no one expected though were the extraordinary economic circumstances and challenging shop floor operations that we have been living through these last few…