You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

Andreas Eschbach is the founder and CEO of eschbach, a software company that helps production teams work smarter and enhance collaboration. Within the process industry, the chemical and pharmaceutical ...

QUESTION: Do you have any suggestions about how to establish improvement goals? For example, I want to see a 10% or 20% or 30% reduction in cycle times this year. ANSWER: My view is that it is ...

In high-pressure, low-margin manufacturing sectors such as food and beverage (F&B), complacency is costly. Staying competitive means constantly improving how work gets done. Continuous improvement (CI ...

Historically, pharmaceutical products have been produced in a traditional ‘batch’ system, in which every operation is executed separately using a defined quantity of materials. In batch manufacturing ...