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PMT wanted to strengthen its position by offering better service, staying ahead of the competition while reducing production costs. The company was struggling with delivery delays and a high rejection rate, and wanted to address both challenges. It chose to adopt the QRM strategy.

'Corrosion under insulation' (CUI) is one of the most common and most difficult to manage forms of corrosion in the process and chemical industry, with corresponding costs and safety risks. To support research aimed at better management of CUI, in its CorrosieLABS [Corrosion & Insulation Practice ...

A new QRM Silver training series on quick response manufacturing (QRM) will start in the autumn of 2023. This course will enable you to independently initiate a QRM project, go through the analysis phase and support the implementation. The training will take up four full days, spread over two months ...

Until recently, Sirris used multi-scale texturing to make surfaces water-repellent. This technique creates superhydrophobic surfaces but is quite time-consuming. That is why we looked for a different solution: the results we obtained with LIPPS ('Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures') are ...

The QRM manufacturing strategy enables companies to reduce lead times and cut indirect costs in high-mix-low-volume environments. To make people in our country more aware about this strategy, Sirris regularly organises QRM Silver training. Upon successful completion of the training, participants ...

The QRM production strategy ensures that companies in a high-mix-low-volume environment are able to shorten their lead times and save indirect costs. To make the strategy better known in Belgium, Sirris is organising QRM Silver training multiple times a year. Anyone successfully completing the ...

Hygi Panel has taken on the challenge of increasing its production by a factor of four in just five years. To achieve this, the company set up a Made Different programme. This exercise mapped out the main challenges and identified the steps needed to improve the production process while ensuring ...

Suppliers are often overlooked in improvement processes. Yet, they tend to have a major impact on their own lead times and delivery reliability.

SPA Monopole, Puratos, Alstom (second title), Valeo Vision Belgique and JTEKT Torsen Europe (third title) are Wallonia’s new ‘Factories of the Future’ for 2023. Hence, Wallonia now boasts a total of 12 Factories of the Future.

On 7 February 2023, the Factory of the Future Awards event took place at Technopolis Mechelen. On that occasion, VCST Industrial Products, Sanofi, Barry Callebaut, Altachem and Pomuni Frozen were awarded the title of 'Factory of the Future'.