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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Getting a Handle on Downtime - Part 2

Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, June 8, 2016 0 23340 Article rating: No rating

When fixing a downtime issue, make one change at a time.

Often, multiple changes are made at the same time, without individually checking their impact on the equipment. This makes it much harder to diagnose problems and evaluate the effectiveness of solutions.

BPCS/LX TIP OF THE WEEK: GETTING A HANDLE ON DOWNTIME

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, May 31, 2016 0 23505 Article rating: No rating

It is essential to capture a reason and duration for each downtime incident to enable the team to effectively prioritize and focus.

Start simple, and make sure every reason is clear (when compared with other reasons) and describes symptoms (as opposed to attempting to diagnose root causes). Remove reasons that aren’t regularly used and add reasons.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: What Should I Consider When Analyzing my Sales?

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, May 24, 2016 0 21931 Article rating: No rating

From a recent article published by M4B Marketing:

When analyzing your sales performance consider the following:

Pricing changes eg. price increases or discounting
Competitors – competitors entering or exiting the market
New product or service launch growing sales
New product or service cannibalizing existing product or service sales
Customers moving between products or services
Changes in customer demand eg. increasing or decreasing
The segments and distribution channels you operate in

Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies

Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, May 18, 2016 0 28275 Article rating: No rating

Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper-based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data.

Is the information captured correctly?
Can everyone access the information?
Is this an accurate representation of what’s going on across all operations?

Make your shop floor paperless and put systems in place that talk to one another and automatically pull and push data to and from your ERP so that you can look in one place for all the information you need to run your business effectively.

If you’re not doing this today, you might as well be burning money.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: How's Your MOM?

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, May 10, 2016 0 27340 Article rating: No rating

I realize it was just Mother’s Day, but I don’t mean your mother.

I mean... MOM- Manufacturing Operations Management, a suite of manufacturing applications designed to improve efficiencies, without the investment in a costly system.

MOM provides manufacturers with the ability to extend their ERP system by offering specific applications that will streamline their operations at an affordable price.