New Straits Times posted earlier this month about an environmental tool called Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) that helps companies trace waste, emissions, and non-products so that they can improve their environmental and economic performance. Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) is an environmental tool that was developed in Germany in the...
Manufacturers usually keep their spare parts inventories neat and organized. However one look at the inventories can explain why the company is spending unnecessary time and money on their inventories. Most inventories are not standardized. Standardization differs from organization in that the parts are simply put in their place, but they are selected...
Repurposing is another way to introduce green practices into a factory. It is like recycling, but object being reused doesn't become another thing. Repurposed machines, for example, are used to produce more than one product—products outside of its normal usage criteria. The concept of repurposing is already taking hold in the manufacturing industry...
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it was a breakthrough to have a plant full of people who each performed one job that eventually resulted in a product. Hundreds of complex products were made each day with each worker spending hours doing the same job. Today’s manufacturing worker is...
The green movement is much more than a way to jump onto the eco-friendly bandwagon, it can also be a way to reduce plant-operating costs considerably over time. Many plants have found that simple monitoring, maintenance, scheduling, and other techniques are easy to implement. Others have to add energy-saving equipment...
Manufacturing dispensers are used in several places throughout the factory automation process. Eagle Technologies creates dispensing systems for use in various industries, from automotive to food processing, including pharmaceuticals. Keeping dispenser efficiency high is the goal, one that you can reach by taking a few cues from the pharmacy. In the...
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