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Go Digital for Layered Process Audits
Layered process audits are a necessary tool for quality leaders and workers alike. Layered process audits can include hundreds of items and involve many workers and leaders to fully evaluate the process through which a product is created. The goal of an LPA is to...
Anvl: The Solution for Data-Driven Continuous Improvement
Leaders are constantly on the lookout for digital tools that can streamline operations, boost quality and keep their workers safe and engaged. Thankfully, there are innovative solutions that continuous improvement leaders need to engage workers using a mobile...
Challenges to Continuous Improvement Leadership
You've probably heard this phrase before, "There is always room for improvement.” When looking at it from a business standpoint, leadership always strives for continuing improvement in operations, equipment, and worker productivity. By pushing for improvement,...
Your Workers are Ready to Go Mobile – And You Should Be Too
The best continuous improvement leaders in manufacturing are tapped into their workers’ needs and level of engagement. At least they should be. National surveys indicate that at least 70 percent of workers are unsatisfied with the dearth of mobile solutions that could...
Go Mobile for Continuous Improvement
In everyday life you and your workers almost always have a mobile device close at hand.So, what is the potential that these small smart devices have for everyday work? McKinsey’s research had some interesting insight about this. Of all the companies that have made an...
Data-Driven Continuous Improvement is Possible with Anvl
Manufacturing leaders today are scrambling to lift their businesses into Industry 4.0, and every company seems to be doing it a little differently. Some are barreling forward with digital transformation, while others are taking small steps. One of the most common...
Looking for an iAuditor Alternative?
Digital transformation leaders in manufacturing are understandably anxious to find solutions that move them forward into Industry 4.0 as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the rush to integrate new ideas sometimes causes leaders to choose the “easiest” solution...
3 Tips for Continuous Improvement Leaders
Continuous improvement leaders are constantly on the lookout for digital tools that can streamline operations, boost quality and keep their workers safe and engaged. It’s not an easy job, but there are applications that bring solutions that continuous improvement...
Connected Workers Bring Continuous Improvement
Connected Worker Solutions capture and unlock real-time data to help businesses improve product quality, increase worker safety, and streamline operations with guided, digital experiences that serve to empower their workers. However, what does this mean for the...
Digitally Implement a Behavior Based Safety Program
Consider how different your workplace would be if you could see ahead to prevent safety hazards with greater speed and precision. Safety on the job is always the top priority, so it’s something everyone in the company needs to take seriously. One valuable tool that...
Mobile Connected Worker Platforms
Connected worker platforms are a growing market in a post COVID world. While the frontline has been working through the entire pandemic, manufacturing leadership now has a clear and easy path to invest in solutions that will make operations more streamlined -- That...
Connected Worker Platforms are Crucial for Leadership
Manufacturing leadership is coming to a crucial decision point. Do they go forward with connected worker platforms that move them forward into Industry 4.0, or do they stay where they are? While there is some “comfort” in the familiar old solutions, it’s comfort that...
How Connected Workers Will Transform the Field Service Industry
Field service workers are the backbone of many important industries, and they can particularly benefit from connected worker solutions that put data to work for them while out and about on their jobs. In fact, digital technologies have already interrupted how field...
Challenges to Form Builder Solutions
With the onset of Industry 4.0, the push for new technology to automate workflows and improve the daily lives of workers is stronger every day. Investing in technology to improve worker safety, productivity, and ultimately improve the bottom line are all...
Why are Workflows a Viable Replacement for Form Builder Software?
The form builders that many manufacturing companies invested in not long ago are like buying shoes for a teenager—you buy what you think is the correct size one day, only to discover those shoes are too tight a few weeks later. Form fillers are not growing to fit the...
Now is the Time to Invest in Connected Workers
The past year brought a significant paradigm shift to the way work happens across the world. Although technological solutions have been around to make it possible for some time, the necessity of keeping workers safe, product quality high, and operations streamlined...
Are You Looking to Replace Your Form Builder Software?
As form builder software comes and goes, companies start to notice some problems over the years. While it is a starting way to digitize paperwork and free supervisors and workers from the limitations inherent in paper documentation, many form builder packages are...
The ROI for Connected Workers
Investing in solutions to empower the connected workforce is not always a simple decision for senior leadership to make. For industries like construction or manufacturing, adopting new tech may seem like more of a burden than a benefit to the day to day operations and...
Common Myths about Connected Worker Solutions
The phrase “connected workers” is buzzing around the manufacturing world like a restless beehive at the moment, and with good reason. Many in leadership positions are still on the fence about whether or not they should or could adopt connected worker solutions in...
A Call to Manufacturing Leadership: Streamline Operations with a Connected Workforce
The ins and outs of a manufacturing business are complex. Worker safety, production deadlines and intricacies, the scope of maintaining the correct manufacturing equipment and supplies, and cost management and efficiency. Ultimately, manufacturing operations managers...
A Call to Manufacturing Leadership: Connect Your Workforce to Improve Quality
In a fiercely competitive market, quality is a key indicator for success now, and in the future. In an earlier blog post, there was considerable discussion about ways that manufacturing leadership can benefit when connected workers are made an integral part of the...
A Call to Manufacturing Leadership: Improve Safety with Connected Worker Solutions
Safety is and always should be the number 1 priority for manufacturing leaders. First and foremost, safety is the leading priority for the manufacturing leadership of an organization because of the people. Keeping your people safe and setting them up for success so...
3 Ways Leadership Benefits from a Connected Workforce
Technology has completely changed the way we work. Especially for industries outside of the knowledge workforce, the non-desk workforce, technology is becoming an option for every part of the work process. One way technology is majorly evolving the non-desk workforce...
Why Implementing a Connected Workforce is a Must for Manufacturing Leadership
With all the talk of Industry 4.0 and digital innovation in manufacturing, we can lose sight of the very backbone of every manufacturing company: the people. The workers must be at the front and center of every discussion and decision made by manufacturing leadership....
Advanced Manufacturing and Worker Safety
With the continued digital transformation occurring in the manufacturing space through technological breakthroughs and disruption to the everyday routine, new initiatives have become critical for successful evolutions in the new world of advanced manufacturing. A...
Adopting Advanced Manufacturing is Critical to Staying Competitive
With Industry 4.0 initiatives underway, you’ll often hear about advanced manufacturing initiatives that company leaders want to implement to remain competitive in an increasingly unpredictable environment. Over the past few years, a host of technological developments...
The Factory of the Future Improves Safety, Quality, and Productivity
If you're involved in the manufacturing industry, you've likely heard the phrase "factory of the future" before. It's a concept that's largely designed to automate and optimize performance and reduce operational overhead costs. And when it's performed well, safety,...
How Operations Managers Can Focus Their Industry 4.0 Initiatives
There’s one word that rings in the ears of operations managers the world over, and that is “productivity.” While constantly on the lookout for ways to boost productivity while making manufacturing processes safer, more efficient and cost-effective, operations managers...
Industry 4.0 Brings the Future of Manufacturing Operations
Plant managers carry a huge responsibility for running a smooth, efficient, safe manufacturing floor, and they take pride in it. It’s also one of the positions most deeply impacted by Industry 4.0 and everything surrounding it. They have a lot of questions about how...
How Industry 4.0 Tech Can Reduce Cost of Quality (COQ)
Sometimes, we imagine we need to make trade-offs between creating the best quality product or settling for “pretty good” In today’s market, that’s not good enough. Fortunately, Industry 4.0 technologies make it both cost-effective and easier to create the highest...
What Does Quality Control Look Like in Industry 4.0?
Industry 4.0 has challenged the way business leaders execute their operations. Rethinking outdated processes and embracing new upgrades creates a better work environment, improves safety, and helps everyone have a smoother day on the job. Of course, those benefits...
Embrace Industry 4.0 In Manufacturing
The fourth Industrial Revolution - Industry 4.0 - is here. Digital technologies are transforming manufacturing: improving safety, productivity, efficiency, quality, sustainability and operations. Companies are already leveraging smart technologies and making the...
A Connected Workforce to Drive Engagement
Professionals in the manufacturing industry have long understood the need to be adaptable. From year to year, these leaders review how new, long-term solutions can help streamline productivity. There are plenty of opportunities to improve the ways we work. And getting...
A Connected Workforce with Mobile Solutions
In recent blogs, we have talked about who connected workers are and how they can be a catalyst for positive change in your manufacturing and business operations. Still, if you worry that adopting a mobile technology solution for your workers will be too difficult, the...
The Benefits of Workflow Automation
Workflow automation is a critical future of work concept that manufacturing firms will need to onramp in the next few years to stay competitive. Consider being able to integrate several currently separate processes and platforms that you need to complete a job into...
Integrate Connected Workers as a Catalyst for Change
The transition to a connected workforce doesn't have to be met with complications. In fact, you might be surprised at just how simple it is to get started. In this post, we're going to discuss some of the starting points for implementing a more connected workforce and...
Why Do You Need Connected Workers?
The past year brought a significant paradigm shift to the way work happens, especially on the manufacturing floor. Although technological solutions have been around to make it possible for some time, the necessity of keeping workers safe during the pandemic led to the...
How Data Can Eliminate Barriers to Success
What are the barriers to success in your business? In the first post of this series, we largely focused on the concerns of plant managers. This post will focus on how capturing data on the shop floor, assessing it and learning from it can help drive business...
Commonalities Among Successful Plant Managers
Just as it's commonly accepted that leaders "are made, not born," it's true that certain principles apply to success, no matter what the field. These basic principles apply equally to plant managers and corner suite executives of multi-million-dollar companies....
Solutions to the Top Concerns for Plant Managers
Embarking on a new year is the perfect time for plant managers and operational leadership to take stock of where their manufacturing companies have been, and where they want to go next. This new year in particular, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed both pressing problems...