Reliability – Making sense of Lean – Mr. Harada interview on equipment maintenance and the Toyota Production System (TPS)

 

2011-12-22

 

The special “Lean Manufacturing” issue of our newsletter, published in June 2010, turned out to be very controversial.

Foreword – How sexy is your maintenance?

 

2011-05-30

 

Previous articles on Lean Manufacturing, Risk Prevention, Cloud Computing and our series of events on “ROI from maintenance: a GM’s perspective” have already shown that maintenance is not just about getting your hands dirty working with machines.

Siveco China team visiting automotive customers at the 2011 Shanghai Auto show

 

2011-04-22

 

A delegation from Siveco China visited the 14th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition on April 22.

Foreword – Lean & TPM: beyond the hype, delivering sustainable results

 

2010-06-19

 

The trend started several years ago, but nowadays everybody is talking about “Lean”. Not denying the benefits of this approach, which from my maintenance point-of-view is nothing but a generalization of the TPM principles, I am by nature very wary of today’s over-hyped concepts…

COSWIN tips & tricks – Measuring OEE in Coswin

 

 

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is one of the key indicators of performance in the manufacturing industry.