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Bottleneck Analysis in Lean Manufacturing

ATS

This means bottlenecks are in many ways the natural adversaries of lean principles. This is why conducting a bottleneck analysis in lean manufacturing operations is such a critical step for manufacturers to take. Allowing bottlenecks to exist in your processes and facilities hinders your true potential.

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Indexable Drill Heads Double Profitability

Modern Machine Shop

Part production is often hampered by a single operation — often a single critical feature that, for whatever reason, creates a bottleneck that dramatically alters the profitability of a job. Secondly, the drills had to handle the cutting conditions needed to reliably produce holes fast enough to eliminate the production bottleneck.

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Unlocking Model-Based Enterprise Success with a Tiger Team Approach

iBASEt

Engaging the Tiger Team Across the Organization Once formed, the Tiger Team doesn’t work alone. They show how shared data identifiers like CAD ID and Characteristic ID keep information connected across stages, removing bottlenecks and lowering delays. They emphasize MBE as an enterprise-wide solution that brings value across teams.

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New Scale Robotics brings automated gauging to Fanuc’s collaborative robots

Robotics Automation News

New Scale Robotics has formed a new partnership with Fanuc Americas as an Authorized Systems Integrator. This new relationship expands the Fanuc system’s capabilities by enabling the automation of manual gauging processes, helping manufacturers eliminate bottlenecks and improve productivity.

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CynLr raises Series A funding to realize robot vision for ‘universal factory’

Robotics Business Review

It is developing technology to enable robots to manipulate objects of any shape, color, size, and form toward its “universal factory” or “factory-as-a-product” concept. This is the significant technological bottleneck that the team at CynLr is solving, paving the way for long-overdue evolution in automation.

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Identifying and Eliminating the 8 Forms of Waste in Manufacturing

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Non-value-added work is made up of tasks that the customer does not care about and does not want to pay for (e.g., material and labor cost from scrap products passed on to the customer in the price of the comb). Non-Utilized Skills and Creativity Whether it’s talent, willingness, or specific ideas, the fourth area of waste centers on people.

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Next Generation Secure and High-quality Aluminum Threading

Fabricating & Metal Work

The CoroTap 400 forming tap has an optimized lobe shape developed for aluminum machining and a low friction-coefficient surface treatment for a smooth and polished thread surface finish. Finally, staggered coolant holes offer excellent coolant flow into the thread-forming zone and a safe forming process.

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