Investing in Industry 4.0 for the Gear Manufacturer/Job Shop (Part 1)
This article requires that the reader be familiar with Job Shop Lean, an approach to adapt the principles of lean manufacturing for a job shop, regardless of its size or industry sector.
Investing in Industry 4.0 for the Gear Manufacturer/Job Shop (Part 2)
A job shop typically executes a different schedule every day. Each day’s schedule could have a different mix of jobs, due dates, lot sizes, and number of gear operations. Regardless of all these differences, it is important that the shop receives a feasible schedule that does not exceed available capacity constraints on key resources (machines, labor, materials, dies, etc.).
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The key to greater transparency: LHWebPlatform
Gear cutting technology manufacturer Liebherr offers a unique platform of interfaces, data profiles and web apps for customized digitization solutions. It monitors in detail what, when, where, how and in what time something was manufactured. Evaluations and reports present essential indicators. It creates transparency for productions – and transparency creates productivity.
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