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All organisations face problems daily, and a significant portion of our time is spent addressing them. The ability to solve problems effectively is a vital skill across all areas of business.

The seven wastes is a great entry level process improvement concept and a low-risk approach to improving your processes.

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 it impacts the business and how businesses can effectively implement Poka-Yoke to mistake proof and optimise their manufacturing processes and operations.

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.