On November 13th, Sirris is organising a workshop on efficient production planning. Register now and discover three of the most persistent misunderstandings in this article.
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Innovation in manufacturing plays a key role in reducing the industry’s environmental impact. Recent advances in non-classical manufacturing technologies, such as ultrashort pulsed laser manufacturing ...
To make your planning system robust, you use different types of buffers. What are they used for? How do they work? This article introduces some basic concepts, which will be explored in detail in our ...
Delivery reliability is an important factor for many customers. The key to improving delivery reliability lies in increasing capacity in a timely manner.
Planning tools often generate high expectations. Many production companies dream of improved planning. With improved planning, one typically hopes to bring the hectic work floor under control, achieve ...
For more than 60 years, Paumelles Liégeoises has been producing a wide range of metal weld-on hinges, often in limited series, for a variety of applications and sectors ranging from wind turbines and ...
A large order for wind turbine components forced EME to switch rapidly from manual production of small and diverse series to an approach and production environment in which large series can also be ...
Quick response manufacturing (QRM) enables companies to improve delivery performance and productivity. To support the implementation of this strategy, Sirris launched the advanced QRM Gold training ...
In the third week of September it was that time again: time for the 2023 EMO trade fair, the biennial high mass for the machining industry, to open in Hanover. What follows is a short report of what ...
Predicting future sales figures has an important role in production planning, determining stock levels and making decisions about new investments. Numerous forecasting methods have been developed over the years, ranging from very simple ones to advanced methods based on artificial intelligence. The Greek mathematician Spyros Makridakis has been organising forecasting competitions since 1982 to find the best methods. His research led to some interesting insights.
