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Six-step program for increasing manufacturing output
Six step action plan to boost your manufacturing business
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This white paper presents a repeatable action plan to help machine shops evaluate and improve their manufacturing business while making sure their CAD/CAM software and machine tools are as efficient as possible.
This six-step plan covers the following strategies, how to use them, and why they are important:
1. Where to start
1. Where to start
- Evaluating your shop's needs, performance, and exsisting assets.
- Standardising your processes and ensuring the post-processors communicating with your machines are optimised for confident, efficient machining.
- Committing to the technological advances that can come with a new workforce, and ensuring that you have a standard, continous cycle of process improvement.
- Ensuring that your software, hardware, and equipmen investments pay off quickly by making sure the workforce uses them to their full potential.
- Researching the underused or underrecognised features of your software, hardware, and equipment to make your shop as porductive as possible.
- Once going through the list, a shop should an annual schedule to revisit each question, make adjustments, and repeat the improvement cycle.