More and more companies are focusing on Industry 4.0 or Production 4.0 and the production environment is constantly changing. This brings new opportunities and in turn new challenges. To be successful or stay successful in the long term, companies need…

Lean Production or also called Lean Manufacturing is a term that is originated in the 1950s at Toyota in Japan. The idea of Lean Manufacturing is to reduce or minimize waste and to use the production factors in the company…

Every manufacturing company is interested in increasing its Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The OEE of a plant is defined as the product of the following three factors: Availability Performance Quality The general formula is: Figure 1: OEE Formula: OEE =…

It feels like Germany is currently working completely from the home office because of COVID-19. Even in areas where a home office is not possible, everything is being done to be able to do the work from home. However, there…