John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Manufacturing enterprises know it takes people and ...

Moving quality beyond enforcement and into daily operations helps teams surface problems sooner and improve performance across the manufacturing system.

As pharmaceutical companies increasingly seek resilient and flexible supply chains, WuXi AppTec is expanding manufacturing capabilities across the United States, Europe, and Asia with a focus on ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This is the last article in the series on building a ...

Manufacturing businesses like machine shops, and the supply chains that serve them, have multiple moving parts that can be managed efficiently from a well-designed workspace. Designing a ...

It's been described as the "engine room" of an organization – a transformational place where steel gets molded into cars, textiles get woven into jackets and plastic springs to life in the form of ...

How do your manufacturing operations' performance metrics stack up against your competition's efforts? How do they compare with best-in-class performers? Manufacturers always are looking for the ...

QUESTION: Do you have any suggestions about how to establish improvement goals? For example, I want to see a 10% or 20% or 30% reduction in cycle times this year. ANSWER: My view is that it is ...

Both service operations and manufacturing operations are in the business of satisfying customers, and that requires organization and planning. While the mechanisms and inputs for creating customer ...

Leading manufacturers are beginning to understand that manufacturing systems that are adapted to the special needs of operational environments can indeed yield serious benefits. MOM is an acronym for ...

Manufacturing businesses nationwide continue to face the dilemma of experienced workers’ retirements, and the simultaneous difficulty of recruiting skilled replacements. The problem goes beyond ...