Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturers seek to quantify—and improve—plant, manufacturing line and machine-level performance. Lean manufacturing and ...

Lean manufacturing seeks to make clear what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean is clearly not a fixed-point objective; accelerating global market competition demands operational flexibility ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot. Back then ...

The coronavirus pandemic is a case study in reacting flexibly to productivity disruptions—one that highlights the value of connected manufacturing and logistics during exceptional times. To survive, ...