Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant There are many elements to “digital transformation”, and digital work instructions and checklists are certainly a key piece. In some cases, it could be a good first step for companies that have...
By: Stefan Rutkowski, Director, Operations, CAREERS Despite rising costs and supply chain challenges, Alberta’s economy remains robust, with the manufacturing sector a key driver of innovation and economic growth. Yet a significant challenge persists—there is a...
By: Bruce Ennis, MEE Cluster Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Have you heard of Lean? Lean is a business methodology developed by Toyota. It is enormously successful. Today, many of the most successful businesses in the world practice Lean – Boeing, Caterpillar,...
By: Bruce Ennis, MEE Cluster Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt In 2008 Toyota surpassed General Motors as the largest and most successful car company in the world. GM had a 35-year head start on Toyota. Toyota passed them - on productivity AND quality. There are many...
Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant Many manufacturers are overwhelmed by new three and four-letter acronyms that describe things they are said to need to be adopting into their companies to have any chance of surviving in the...
Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant We’ve all heard it oft said that people don’t like change and because of that, resist change. But that’s not always as true as we think it is. For instance, we sometimes elect new governments...
By Susan Zielinski, Red Deer Advocateszielinski@reddeeradvocate.com Josh Payne, with mode40, was one of the vendors at SmartMTX (Smart Manufacturing Technology Exhibition), held at Westerner Park on April 4 and 5. (Photo by Susan Zielinski/Advocate staff) Smart...
Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant In the first column in this “tips for digitization” series, the focus was on making sure the company leadership was on board with the digitization initiative, and that the company’s business...
Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant The word “manufacture” is said to come from two words: “manu”, which comes from classical Latin word for “hand”, and “facture”, which is the Middle French term for “making”. The first recorded...
Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant In the first column in this “tips for digitization” series, the focus was on making sure the company leadership was on board with the digitization initiative, and that the company’s business...