22 MAR

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Floor marking should be used if there are two or more types of traffic, or as a way to make users aware of safety hazards. Floor marking is used to separate people from hazards, mark aisles and passageways, and establish safe zones and other specific traffic uses.

28 FEB

Lean Logistics Techniques

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Any successful logistics system needs to provide the required materials where and when they are needed. Lean logistics takes this approach a step further.

23 FEB

Top 10 Uses for DuraLabel Industrial Printers

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Workplace safety is more important than ever before. With federal rules and regulations in place and always changing, it’s vital to run a workplace in which employees can do their best work while ensuring compliance with OSHA guidelines.

05 FEB

Kaizen Benefits

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Businesses continue to turn towards lean manufacturing tools to find ways to tighten their belts and remain competitive. Lean tools with low up-front costs are especially appealing. One such tool, Kaizen, focuses on continuous improvements and can be implemented on nearly any budget. Kaizen involves every employee in making small, daily changes. Using knowledge from every employee, Kaizen identifies problems at their source, solves them, and changes standards to ensure problems stay solved.

05 FEB

Types of Floor Marking

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As workplaces grow increasingly sophisticated, it’s imperative that employers keep workers safe, increase efficiency, and improve organization.

Floor marking is one subtle, yet effective way to meet these requirements. Available in several colors, patterns, and materials, floor marking plays an important role in addressing common safety concerns—no matter the workplace or industry.

05 FEB

What is Floor Marking?

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Companies around the world, from major manufacturers down to your local grocery store, all share a common struggle: efficiently managing the movement of products and people. Business may slow down because storage isn’t organized, or forklift drivers aren’t sure which way to go. Every company could benefit from better organization, workflow, and safety.

05 FEB

Creating a Visual Factory with the 5S System

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The term “visual factory” refers to an approach to lean manufacturing processes based on visual information throughout the workplace. A visual factory uses a system of communication tools to share information at the time and place it is needed.

05 FEB

Lean Manufacturing Principles

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To gain a competitive edge, many companies have adopted lean manufacturing (or lean thinking) as a keystone for success in today’s global market. Lean manufacturing has enabled businesses to increase production, reduce costs, improve quality, and increase profits by following five key principles

05 FEB

Lean Facility

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The global market places significant pressure on businesses and other organizations to increase efficiency, improve profits, and reduce costs as consumers simultaneously demand lower-cost and better quality goods. In response, many lean manufacturing tools and methodologies have been developed to help businesses meet these demands.

05 FEB

Advantages of Lean Manufacturing

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Womack and Jones, in their book Lean Thinking, define lean manufacturing as “a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste.” When properly implemented, lean manufacturing provides many advantages, which include improving flow (material, people, information, and work) and eliminating waste.

05 FEB

Lean Manufacturing Efficiency

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Improving manufacturing efficiency requires eliminating waste. What is waste? Anything that is not adding value to the product or service. This value must also be value that the customer is willing to pay for; any added cost or effort that the customer is not willing to pay for is also waste.

05 FEB

Continuous Improvement Ideas for the Workplace

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Success in today’s competitive market requires constant innovation and a vision focused on continuous improvement. When first considering continuous improvement, it can be hard to know where to start, but here are some helpful tips that should make it easier.

05 FEB

Kaizen Getting Started

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There is more to implementing Kaizen than we can include on a single web page. However, the following serves as an overview of introducing Kaizen into an American workplace. For most American companies Kaizen involves a significant change in the corporate culture. This is key.

05 FEB

Product Identification

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Product identification is a broad category of labeling that includes functions such as product traceability, brand protection, and various information labels. With a rapidly changing business environment and constant threats from theft and counterfeit products, product identification labeling is critical.

05 FEB

Are Your Safety Signs Seen by Everybody?

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Our society has become inundated with images of safety signs—on public transportation, in the workplace, in stores, on products, on equipment, and so much more. Unfortunately, these warning, danger, and general safety signs are not always easy to read and contain so much information that they are often not understood or simply ignored.