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2021 Assembly Plant of the Year: GKN Drives Transformation With New Culture, Processes and Tools

2021 Assembly Plant of the Year: GKN Drives Transformation With New Culture, Processes and Tools

All-wheel drive (AWD) technology has taken the automotive world by storm in recent years, because of its ability to effectively transfer power to the ground. Today, many sport utility vehicles use AWD for better acceleration, performance, safety and traction in all kinds of driving conditions.
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2020 Assembly Plant of the Year: There’s No Looking Back at Murakami

2020 Assembly Plant of the Year: There’s No Looking Back at Murakami

Every motorist uses rearview mirrors whenever they get behind the wheel. In fact, most people look at them every few seconds as they drive. However, few ever give those ubiquitous devices much thought.

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Video: Lean Manufacturing Experts and Co-Authors, Matt Zayko and Eric Ethington on The Power of Process

July 11, 2022

At many manufacturers, continuous improvement experts are merely fixing problems that should have been avoided in the first place. They are essentially doing process development rework. 


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Smart Technologies Aid Continuous Improvement Efforts

New technologies, such as smart vision systems, provide a single source of truth for continuous improvement projects.
Anthony Tarantino Ph.D.
June 10, 2022

Process improvement projects have traditionally struggled with obtaining accurate data quickly and easily. In many cases, various data sources provide competing sources of the truth. Smart technologies offer the means to provide a single source of the truth, without the time-consuming and labor-intensive efforts of the past.


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Ease Mental Strain on the Assembly Line

Matilda Wollter Bergman
May 9, 2022

While assembly work has always been physically demanding, little is known about the overall consequences of cognitive loading on assemblers' performance, well-being, and the speed and quality of production. Cognitive under- or overloading can cause a lack of focus or distraction on one hand, or overwhelm on the other.


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The automotive industry and the chip shortage

The Automotive Industry and the Chip Shortage

Jon Quigley
December 16, 2021
We take for granted that our supply chains will deliver the products we desire, or at least we once did. We don't care about their complexity. How could there be complexity? They have always delivered reliably.
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Seven Ways Lean Can Evolve

Seven Ways Lean Can Evolve

The future of lean lies in digital manufacturing.
Mohit Gupta
September 2, 2021
In the 1990s, lean manufacturing revolutionized how we organized and ran assembly lines. Now, manufacturing is undergoing another revolution - only this time, it's digital.
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First-Pass Yield

First-Pass Yield

Jon Quigley
June 8, 2021
First-pass yield is an important manufacturing metric. It measures the effectiveness of a process and provides an indication of how well we are eliminating waste.
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Pipe-and-Joint System Improves Ergonomics at Pump Manufacturer

Pipe-and-Joint System Improves Ergonomics at Pump Manufacturer

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Jim Camillo
May 2, 2021
Last year's California wildfire season was a record-setting one for the state. By the end of 2020, more than 9,600 fires had burned nearly 4.4 million acres, or more than 4 percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land.
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Creating a Factory of the Future in Aerospace

Creating a Factory of the Future in Aerospace

Andreas Hassold Doug Luedtke Doug Rogers
March 10, 2021
Aerospace assemblers are just beginning to investigate how Industry 4.0 technologies can improve throughput, quality and cost.
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Lean Gives Crown Equipment a Lift

Lean Gives Crown Equipment a Lift

Continuous improvement and a vertical manufacturing strategy enable Crown to compete in a crowded market.
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John Sprovieri
January 4, 2021
If a pallet-load of stuff must be moved around a warehouse, factory or retailer somewhere in the world, chances are pretty good that the machine doing the heavy lifting was made by Crown Equipment Corp.
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Reward Proactive Action Over Firefighting

Reward Proactive Action Over Firefighting

Jon Quigley
December 10, 2020

What is it about running in and saving the day, like in old Westerns, that individuals and companies enjoy? We may say that we would rather not have such drama on the shop floor, but all too often we set ourselves up for it in the end.


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