SMED applied to planned Plant Maintenance – recent case study
Oil Production Issue: Oil producer was experiencing long and unpredictable plant maintenance turnarounds (also known as a shutdown or an outage). Downtime […]
Author: Lawrence Loucka
Belbin’s Team Roles
References: http://www.belbin.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M0Al3Oi0-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belbin_Team_Inventory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijywicYlX0&NR=1
Overall Plant Effectiveness
The Eight Major Plant Losses Shutdown Production adjustment Equipment failure Process failure Normal production loss Abnormal production loss Quality defects Reprocessing
Things to do to improve warehouse productivity
Business may be slow now but before you know it you’ll be jammed again. Want to get more done with the folks […]
Helping Organizations OPT for Change
Guest author Carmen Brickner of CLEARbrick, Inc. “Managing change” is an oxymoron. And anything with ‘moron’ in it can’t be good for […]
It’s time for Hoshin: Annual Operating Plan
Well its getting to be that time of year again… What did I promise to deliver this year, what do we need […]
Waterspiders as continuous improvement innovators
The term Waterspider or water beetle (mizusumashi in Japanese) comes from the behavior of the insect known in the States as a […]
How many kanban do you need?
Kanban is a system that supports level production by helping maintain stable supply and efficient operations. The question of how many kanban […]
Prepare for the recovery before it’s too late
Dave Jones and Pierre Loewe write in Chief Executive Magazine … “Discontinuities are big, foundational shifts which have the potential to fundamentally […]
Walmart Sustainable Product Index
Why do you think Walmart is asking these questions of their 100,000 suppliers? Can you answer these questions by October 1, 2009? […]
Simplified Systematic Network Planning – step 6
STEP 6: DETAIL AND DO Step 6 details and implements the network plan selected in Step 5. If the purpose of the […]
Simplified Systematic Network Planning – step 5
STEP 5: EVALUATE ALTERNATIVES In Step 5, the planner evaluates the network plans developed in Step 4 by running several alternative scenarios. […]