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The use of key Lean Manufacturing tools in a practical and effective manner is central to the ethos of the Production Support 56 team. To focus on improving activities which add value and removing those which do not involves eliminating or minimising the potential for human error and mistakes. This article explores human error, how […]

At Production Support 56 our mission is to cut out the waste and help businesses add value to their production processes by creating useful factory simulations. This can be of an existing factory or a new factory design.

Get better factory designs with Manufacturing Simulation. This articles describes some of the important benefits for a Design Engineer to help you produce better factory designs.

Production scale-up is not always attained by chucking in more resources. You need to accurately understand what you are trying to achieve, find a sustainable solution, then thoroughly implement.

In manufacturing size reduction of materials is possibly the most common activity, Whether its crushing ores in mining, grinding in food manufacturing or fine micronising in pharmaceutical or coatings industries, reducing the size of materials features everywhere.

Constraints are an important factor for manufacturing, process improvement and simulation. Constraints are what limit and shape your manufacturing process.

The importance of quantifying and evaluating various aspects of a process is essential, especially if you want to make meaningful improvements. But what does this really mean and how can we be sure the data is credible?

Controlling the exposure chemicals in the workplace is not only essential but required by law under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations, what we all know as COSHH.
Carrying out a COSHH assessment doesn’t have to be a daunting task if you follow a few simple steps.

The process map is also the perfect document for starting a factory simulation, it shows you how all the activities are linked together, the workflow and information flow.

So, what is a process? From the SIPOC diagram’s point of view it is the supplier and all the inputs that are required for a transformation, the conditions, and steps to undergo the transformation of the object, the product of the transformation and the customer.

When designing a new factory, production line or manufacturing process, a critical measure of success is demonstrating that the shiny new design fits the brief.

Cleanliness in manufacturing is an important parameter, not only for hygiene reasons but for quality purposes as well. Hygiene is critical in food & drink, healthcare, beauty, and other service industries.