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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The machine-learning feature highlights units that appear defective. Photo Credit: Instrumental When Anna-Katrina Shedletsky was working as an engineer at Apple, she often found herself traveling ...