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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 next workshop on planning system.

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 shorter lead times and deliver more accurately. In this blog you will read why even the most ...

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 reinforced doors to letterboxes, cars and wagons. Eighty per cent of its production is exported ...

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 assembled quickly, efficiently and at the required quality.

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. On 4 October 2023, the QRM Gold certificates were awarded to the first group of participants at ...

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 we could spot for you.

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 ...

In almost all organisations, stories circulate about absurd circumstances under which employees, under the pressure of their own goals, take actions that have a negative impact on the concern. These actions range from artificially boosting numbers to the unintentional obstruction of colleagues. We ...