Since the first industrial revolution, improving productivity has been a major goal for most manufacturing operations. Today, in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, that hasn’t changed.

Data analytics has been a revolutionary force in manufacturing, allowing those operations that avail themselves of these methods to gain greater efficiency and reduce downtime. The power of data ...

Reliability doesn’t come cheap: U.S. manufacturers spend over $57 billion annually repairing and maintaining machinery. But that’s nothing compared to how much industrial organizations lose when ...

This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...