A while back I was looking at a robotic water jet cutting process that needed improvement. The process used two six axis robots and each robot cut half of a part with a high pressure stream of water. We needed to reduce the cycle time and improve the repeatability of the cutting process. By that time in […]
During my first summer after high school I had a job working on a large construction site. About two thirds the way through the summer I was rewarded with an opportunity to oversee a concrete pour on some large formed walls. Because of the height of the walls the concrete had to be either pumped […]
Did you know Henry Ford’s idea for the production line wasn’t entirely unique? He actually optimized the idea from a process that he had seen while visiting the Armor and Swift meatpacking facility in Chicago.
We have a history of being successful on impossible projects. At the end of the day it’s often how we look at a project that allows it to be successful. First we look at the value of the solution or the return on the investment. This is the first step in taking an impossible project […]
In the late 90’s I was recruited to St. Louis to help facilitate a turnaround activity for a tier 1 automotive supplier. The plant that I came to was bleeding money and severely in the red. In situations like this it’s very common to have a lot of chaos and there is tremendous difficulty with […]