NOV 23, 2020 | BLOG What happens when Manufacturing AI collides with the Theory of Constraints Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bringing new thinking to old industries. With AI, work processes performed by humans are undergoing transformation. Ubiquitous, cheap...
Oct 13, 2020 | BLOG Taking the Theory of Constraints to the Next Level The Theory of Constraints has been a factor in the manufacturing community since the 1980s. Today, there is a large community of consultants that advises manufacturing firms to focus on their...
Sep 25, 2020 | BLOG Smart Factories: Shop Floor to Top Floor The new industrial revolution, otherwise known as Industry 4.0, or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), implies the development of the so-called ‘Smart Factory’. Accordingly, large manufacturing businesses...
Sep 11, 2020 | BLOG Industry 4.0 and the Digital Factory: does it translate to the bottom-line? Take a step back into the late 1700s and early 1800s where manufacturing went from hand packaging goods one-by-one to being mass-produced by machines fueled by the...
JULY 29, 2020 | BLOG Growing manufacturing profits based on Six Sigma methodology For decades, the Six Sigma methodology for quality management has helped manufacturers improve performance by getting quality standards under a very tight range of product variability....