7 ways to improve your shop-floor productivity

• Lean Management: Ready to cut the fat? Lean management is all about eliminating waste, optimizing processes, and boosting efficiency. By embracing lean principles, you streamline operations, reducing unnecessary steps and materials. Your workflow will be as smooth as butter!

• Supplier Consolidation: Less is more when it comes to suppliers. Reducing the number of suppliers simplifies your supply chain, giving you better negotiation power, fewer disruptions, and improved quality control. Bossard’s Supplier Consolidation Solution helps you manage fewer suppliers more effectively, ensuring timely and consistent delivery of materials. Fewer headaches, more productivity!

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• Efficient Layout and Route Plan: The shorter the way is, the faster the material moves! By optimizing the physical layout of the shop floor and planning the best routes from central storage to workstations, you minimize the movement of materials and workers. Less wandering around means more getting things done!

• Automated Systems: Enter the future with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and conveyor systems that keep your material flow smooth and continuous. Bossard’s logistics solutions, like SmartBins Cloud and SmartLabel Cloud, enable wireless, real-time communication between workstations and central storage. This ensures the right materials are always in the right place at the right time. Say goodbye to supply delays and hello to efficiency!

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• IoT and Sensors: Ready to take your factory into the future? Installing IoT devices and sensors can transform your workflow into a high-tech paradise. These nifty gadgets will gather real-time data on inventory levels, quality control, and workflow transparency. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to quick, informed decisions!

• Analytics Platforms: Let the data speak for itself! With data analytics platforms, you can monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), ensure consistent quality, and make decisions with crystal- clear, traceable production data. Bossard’s Smart Factory services are like having a watchdog that keeps track of your production metrics and optimizes performance.

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• Digitized production documents: Toss those paper stacks and step into the digital age! Imagine all your production documents magically updating from the ERP, audit trails and all. Work instructions pop up on tablets for each worker, and every production device along the assembly line, from smart tools to test equipment, connects to the system, guaranteeing quality traceability.

• Digital Supply Chain Tools: Managing workflows, approvals, and communications has never been easier with digital tools and platforms. Bossard’s digital solutions, like ARIMS, put you in the driver’s seat of your material flow. Track orders, manage inventory, and dive into intelligent analytics. ARIMS Mobile even lets you keep tabs on your B- and C-parts anytime, anywhere. Efficiency and predictability? Check and check!

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• Digital work guidance: Forget about those boring and clumsy old paper manuals! Digitized work instructions come with animations, sounds, and videos, offering a rich, interactive experience. This isn’t just for techies—it’s perfect for everyone, accommodating different learning preferences. Plus, visual instructions mean less text to translate, which is a win for multilingual environments. The easier the onboarding is, the less resistance to the new technology is!

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• Reconfigurable Workstations: Want to keep your assembly line as adaptable as a yoga instructor? Design your workstations to be easily reconfigured for different tasks or product variations. Pairing these stations with smart devices and digitized work instructions makes changeovers a breeze. Employees will zip through tasks with less hassle, following Poka-Yoke principles to boost effectiveness and nail those quality standards. Fewer errors and reworks? Yes, please!
  
  
• Flexible Automation: Meet your new best friends: collaborative robots, or cobots. These metallic guys or arms can be quickly programmed to tackle various tasks. Bossard’s smart assembly solutions feature modular and reconfigurable systems that easily adapt to changing production needs. Your production line just got a whole lot more flexible!

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• Predictive Maintenance: Imagine preventing equipment failures or supply shortage before they even happen! With predictive maintenance strategies using IoT sensor data, you can anticipate issues and nip them in the bud. Keep your process running smoothly and avoid unexpected downtime.
  
  
• Quick Changeover Techniques: Forget fumbling around with tool settings! Connected tool integration means all your settings, calibration, and configuration info are saved and updated automatically. Each screw and rivet gets tightened to perfection without operators having to remember every detail. Thanks to Bossard’s smart logistics, materials and tools are always ready and waiting, slashing downtime caused by supply delays. Keep things rolling seamlessly!

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