Process Improvement To succeed today you need to stay ahead of the competition. Process improvement plays an integral role in the modern organisation and keeping up to speed on the latest happenings is vitally important. See what others are up to and consider if it may be of benefit to you.
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Looking for innovative thinkers ? Check out the 2009 list of the Best Design Programs in the World by Business Week. It has both business-based and design-based programs that integrate the best of both methodologies and cultures—39 masters and MBA programs that significantly integrate Design Thinking and Business.
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Friday 2 October, 2009 07:33 AM |
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Lean initiatives yield significant improvements in factories around the world by removing redundancy and waste in factory layouts, ergonomics, workflows, processes, procedures, and assets. These are generally tangible and visible elements of the factory and its processes.
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Thursday 1 October, 2009 05:57 PM |
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Aditya Johri , an assistant professor with Virginia Tech's engineering education department, has won a $400,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to study work practices of global engineering professionals.
It is Johri's (http://www.enge.vt.edu/People/faculty/Profiles/johri.html) hope that his research will advance understanding of how engineers work on teams spread across the world using information technology, and lead to insights that can help educators better prepare future engineers. Such international collaboration in the classroom can transform how engineering students are educated, Johri said. |
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Thursday 1 October, 2009 11:46 AM |
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Global manufacturing has become complex. Pressures have forced companies in the manufacturing industry to completely overhaul and re-engineer their design, development, and management processes to compete in the new marketplace. Companies need to improve tools, train staffs, and focus on creating products that will set them apart from competition. Manufacturers are driven by numerous competing forces, such as the demand for mass customization and the growing pressure to deliver products to market faster and at a lower cost.
Supply chains, equipment and resources need to be managed. Production schedules and logistics need to be organized. Most significantly, manufacturers need to be able to visualize the global picture and gain the control needed to make the right decisions. |
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Thursday 24 September, 2009 05:27 PM |
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Whenever you are asked to specify the best tool for an application, you must first consider a few things before settling on an answer. You have to consider who is going to use it, what this tool would be used for (its application), and what the outcome is intended to accomplish. We know the answer to the first consideration to be operators. With this in mind, let us step through the remaining areas of concern to arrive at an answer. |
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Wednesday 9 September, 2009 07:06 PM |
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Businesses today are challenged to find more efficient ways to operate. Energy costs are rising and present significant long-term implications for the viability of many companies. |
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Thursday 7 May, 2009 11:30 AM |
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Shipyards in Europe cannot compete on price alone against overseas competitors, especially those based in the Far East.
Consequently, European shipbuilders must concentrate on high-quality construction projects that are specially tailored to their customer's requirements. Each ship is a unique product, produced only once or in a very small run. |
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Thursday 16 April, 2009 02:33 PM |
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On show for the first time in the UK at this year’s MAINTEC industrial maintenance and asset management exhibition, the new Machine Condition Advisor (MCA) from SKF, the knowledge engineering company, is an easy-to-use, ergonomically designed, handheld device designed to simplify machine maintenance and prevent costly failures.
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Monday 16 March, 2009 12:27 PM |
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The pressure is definitely on at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, Pasadena, CA), where scientists, engineers and technicians are working evenings and holidays to design, manufacture and test the cruise stage and descent stage instruments and rover for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) project. |
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Tuesday 3 March, 2009 03:12 PM |
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Dassault Systèmes , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and Intercim LLC, a market leader in manufacturing and production operations management software solutions for advanced and highly regulated industries, today announced a new step forward in their strategic alliance, with Dassault Systèmes taking a minority position in Intercim LLC. |
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Wednesday 25 February, 2009 06:06 PM |
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South Korea will provide Iraq with $3.55 billion worth of infrastructure in return for oil field stakes, the Energy Ministry said. South Korea would be given rights to the fields in southern Basra, which covers the majority of Iraq’s crude output. In exchange, Seoul would build infrastructure such as power plants and generators, the ministry said in a statement.
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Wednesday 25 February, 2009 03:07 PM |
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AN emerging trend in machine con struction is the modularisation of machines and installations into mechatronic sub-systems to form a transparent overall system, with vir tual mapping, simulation and control of production on PC workstations.
Standardised "intelligent" handling devices meet the current market demand for greater flexibility and shorter engineering times.
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Wednesday 25 February, 2009 08:20 AM |
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As part of CB&I's implementation of SmartPlant Materials as its materials management system across its global network of 80 offices and 18,000 employees, CB&I will migrate legacy data and business processes to SmartPlant Materials.
CB&I will focus its use of SmartPlant Materials on its energy and natural resources projects, including oil and gas and offshore installations, across the complete project execution life cycle. From materials specification and BOM change management, through procurement and inventory tracking, to forecast, and material issuing, Intergraph anticipates improved efficiencies for CB&I across all material management work processes.
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Tuesday 24 February, 2009 12:19 PM |
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Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today responded to the findings from a series of Industry Sector Insight reports unveiled by Aberdeen Group. |
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 09:49 PM |
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Global mining company achieves significant productivity gains with 3-D mine models developed with Dassault Systèmes finite element analysis software.
In a step change beyond traditional processes, Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA (the Dassault Systèmes’ brand for realistic simulation), is being used to enhance mine design and engineering simulation at a number of major mines around the world. In North and South America, Africa and Australia some of the world’s biggest mining companies are applying FEA technology to evaluate safety and improve design planning, implementation, and operations. |
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 10:03 PM |
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By introducing more straightforward IT solutions, plantfloor and enterprise can achieve new levels of automation and efficiency.
In Aberdeen’s report Global Manufacturing Operations Management, the authors conclude that one of the required actions to improve manufacturing operations is to: “provide real-time visibility and establish automated workflows across manufacturing operations and supplier networks to manage adverse events.” |
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Monday 19 January, 2009 04:04 AM |
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R&D departments worldwide are reevaluating where their productivity can be increased and design costs reduced. Managers are turning towards new design strategies that can be incorporated to boost productivity and focus back on exploring and experimenting.
Electronics design is perhaps even more of a necessity in the current business climate of hiring freezes and reduced operating budgets. The various ways of performing rapid prototyping are suddenly getting a fresh look.
Can rapid prototyping be seriously considered for reducing development time and costs, and more importantly, expanding market position? It's a good time to take this idea on another road test.
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Wednesday 14 January, 2009 03:25 PM |
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As the global economic climate places additional constraints on budgets, test engineers are challenged to identify ways to test devices more cost-efficiently than ever before, according to National Instruments (NI), a worldwide player in test and measurement.
NI has identified three trends – software-defined instrumentation, parallel processing technologies and new methods for wireless and semiconductor test – that will significantly improve the efficiency of test and measurement systems in 2009.
These trends help engineers develop faster and more flexible automated test systems while reducing their overall cost of test, and companies worldwide and from all industry segments can see significant benefits from applying these methods and technologies. |
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Tuesday 13 January, 2009 01:24 AM |
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While most people associate lean with tools and principles such as value stream mapping, one-piece flow, kanban, 5-S, Total Productive Maintenance and kaizen events, few people think about the more mundane aspects of lean. Problem solving is one of the keys to a successful lean implementation because it empowers all of those involved. |
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Wednesday 3 December, 2008 03:25 PM |
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When Whirlpool launched its KitchenAid Series II line of appliances in 2007, the company was taking a bigger-than-usual gamble. Whirlpool's designers didn't just imbue the Series II—a refrigerator, microwave, range, oven and dishwasher—with the kind of sleek, industrial look popularized by TV foodie shows; the appliances shared distinctive design touches like responsive black touch display panels and bow-shaped chrome handles—clear indications that each appliance was meant to be part of a set.
That may sound simple, but in fact it broke with industry orthodoxy. Conventional wisdom holds that consumers buy stuff like this piecemeal, most often as a "distress purchase" when the old one breaks down. So why did Whirlpool spend a lot of its own money to create a uniform look when most consumers wouldn't care? The company's approach to advertising was similarly counter-intuitive: The brand advertised the whole line at once. Usually, ads for refrigerators come in March and campaigns for ovens hit in late summer.
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Tuesday 18 November, 2008 07:49 AM |
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Oracle has been in the PLM business since 1995. The company is distinguished by its industry-specific PLM solutions for industries including electronics and high technology, semiconductor, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, automotive, industrial manufacturing, and aerospace and defense.
The main changes we have seen over the years in the PLM market are driven by the evolution of our customers’ business models. There is an increased reliance on global design, manufacturing and supply infrastructure, creating a need for a holistic view into product portfolios and product success drivers. This means PLM solutions should allow for enterprise-wide collaboration around product-level data and processes throughout the product lifecycle. |
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Monday 3 November, 2008 09:42 AM |
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