I’ve been in the Industrial Automation business for over 15 years now and have seen quite a swing in the way manufacturers produce their products. About 12 years ago I was working for a major…
Why Lean Automation?
Going Beyond Mass Production to Lean Systems
How are you going to take your business into the future? How will you compete with price-cutting competitors? How will you reduce overhead costs and increase profits? Every business struggles with these same questions. The…
Lean Thinking in Industrial Automation
Begin by determining what is valuable to the customer from their perspective. The next step is to map out all necessary steps to achieve the value stream. Then make sure the parts flow through the…
Status Quo or Innovative Technologies
Following the status quo has never pushed people to greatness. Imagine if things always stayed the same, there would be no iPhones or iPods, no cell phones or pda’s, no electric vehicles or vehicles period. …
Great Ideas Made Better
Designing for manufacturability (DFM) is the process of proactively designing products for optimization during fabrication, assembly, purchasing and testing. We want to help our customers ask the right questions during the early phases of design…