Manufacturers have a handful of processes they use to make their products. There are five types of manufacturing processes: repetitive, discrete, job shop, continuous process and batch process manufacturing. Let’s take a closer look at the last one, batch production….
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A project manager asked what she could do about not liking the present moment. She was learning to do mindfulness meditation and was finding that when she was being mindful of the present moment, she found it stressful. She was bombarded by problem after problem experiencing anxiety centered on the fear that her project was […]
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Manufacturers, as in all businesses, are constantly seeking efficiencies that reduce costs while maintaining the production of quality goods. This is, of course, easier said than done. However, manufacturers have methods, such as production efficiency, to help achieve these goals….
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When you’re discussing business processes it’s often best to do it visually. There is something about a SIPOC diagram that shows the whole process in such a way that makes it easily understood by your team. SIPOC helps focus the…
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A product roadmap will guide you through the product management process, which is notoriously known as a detail-oriented discipline. Getting into the weeds is part of the product manager job description, but one should never get lost there. Product managers…
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Businesses are always straining to look around the corner and see what the future has in store for them. Being able to prepare for the changes in the market can set up a business to take advantage of these opportunities…
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Project planning, execution, monitoring and controlling are often the focus of project management. Even project initiation gets attention, but project completion is usually mentioned as an afterthought. That’s a mistake. Every phase of a project is important. Project completion is…
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It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or…
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Everything you need for your manufacturing process is a resource—people, materials, equipment, software, facilities, etc. Whatever you’re making, you need to manage those resources to do it. That process is called manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), and it’s a method…
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Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide projects with a lot of data. But to know whether those KPIs are on target requires more than just a gut feeling. You need a way to quickly and expertly evaluate whether project goals are…
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