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5 Tips for Reducing Downtime

How to Reduce Downtime in Your Facility When managing any facility, one of the biggest problems you need to overcome is downtime. Whether it is a full work stoppage where nothing is getting done, or just one machine that isn’t working properly, downtime can cause a wide range of different problems throughout the facility. Of course, downtime will also affect the bottom line of the facility, since…

Tony Ferraro | July 2, 2014 | Lean | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Lean Manufacturing, Reducing Downtime

Calculating Your Downtime Costs – And Avoiding Them

For most businesses, some downtime is inevitable. Machines break, one process or lack of materials bottlenecks the others, and things just happen. Most of the time, this is written off as what something that simply goes on without major consequence and no further exploration is done. However, I recently came across a professional discussion on LinkedIn that challenged business owners to calculate and then take a good,…

Tony Ferraro | January 14, 2014 | Lean | Reducing Downtime