There comes a point when your spreadsheet models of business processes just don’t cut it. You observe some complexity that is just too difficult to explore. You have questions that remain unanswered because you can’t do…
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It doesn’t take long for a conversation on the shop floor of a manufacturing plant to mention lead time. There always seems to be something or other that will affect it, usually negatively. But what…
Experienced shop floor supervisors and production managers can often find themselves at odds with the production planning function in a manufacturing business. Tensions emerge between the organisational desire to trust the principles of Materials Requirements…
While you will find a relentless justification for the need to apply science to manufacturing management in these articles, it would be rather naive to think that just looking after the mathematics will solve all…
What place is there in the factory for any talk of science? In fact, it all sounds a bit technical, too theoretical, and probably of no use in practice. Theory doesn’t take account of machine…
You want your factory to be IIoT enabled. You’ve seen the videos and read the case studies. It’s obvious: IIoT technologies are central to your digital transformation. But where do you start? How do you…
Webots (https://cyberbotics.com) is a simulation environment for the design and modelling of robotic systems. Since robotics invariably results in some physical actuation, Webots can also be used to model Cyber-Physical Systems, and being open source,…
Any factory floor supervisor knows that the more raw material/components/work-in-progress that is pumped into a manufacturing system, the longer the lead-time. Put another way, the order is delivered late, and subsequent orders cannot be planned…