Tips for Increasing Warehouse Productivity
Improving efficiency in the warehouse is critical to meeting current consumer trends, which are being driven by e-commerce and home delivery of groceries. Warehouse productivity is affected by the type, size, and variety of materials being moved in the warehouse to meet these demands. While changes to these factors over time may increase or decrease performance, the one absolute affecting productivity is optimizing routine processes. Using mobile weighing technologies to reduce truck time at the dock (turn-over) can have one of the greatest effects on a company’s key performance indicators (KPIs).
GM uses smart manufacturing to save time, money
M’s largest 3-D printer, which cost roughly $28,000, is housed in a room near the cafeteria at its Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant, which builds the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave.
How to Be Smart about Shaking Things Up
Does your organization need change, but you don’t know where to start? Here are some principles for heading down the turbulent path.
US Factory Production Rose a Healthy 0.5 Percent in April
U.S. factories cranked out more appliances, computers and aircraft last month, lifting manufacturing production for only the second time in five months.
Could Looming Supply Chain Risks Sink Your Company?
Supply chains are suddenly under threat. Following years of low inflation and stable trade relations, executive teams in boardrooms across the globe are now grappling with rising inflation, a rapidly changing trade environment and the dire threat of an all-out trade war. Already, pressure is up sharply on earnings, and many leaders fear that traditional cost-saving measures may no longer be enough to avoid a heavy hit.
3 Trends Driving Modern Manufacturing Innovation
Industry 4.0 is the integration of manufacturing automation and data exchange, to create what has been dubbed as a “smart factory.” These factories will be controlled by a virtual production line that runs systems and monitors and completes their physical processes. These systems will communicate in real time, whether that means a customer tracking the progress of his (or her) order’s production, or a company ensuring the quality of its operations. Simply put, connected software systems will run our physical manufacturing automatically.
Workforce succession in manufacturing
UI Labs earlier this year released The Digital Workforce Succession in Manufacturing, a report that “strives to capture a sense of the changing technology and business interactions, and job roles that are having an impact on our manufacturing sector. This modernization and advancement of technology effects the entire ecosystem of manufacturers (from the small to the huge), educators, government, and the workforce itself.”
Changing Company Culture: It’s a Matter of Principles
People calling for a changed culture often are experiencing the painful results of behaviors that are typical in reactive manufacturing organizations. A philosophical intervention is required.
Factories Added A Strong 22,000 Jobs in March
Manufacturing employment increased by 22,000 jobs in March, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last Friday. The growth is thanks in part to employment in fabricated metal products, which increased by 9,000 jobs in March and has shown the largest job gain over the last 12 months, with 59,000 jobs added in total. This accounts for about one-third of all jobs added to the pool of durable goods manufacturing work.