Written by: Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant I’ve been working with Western Canadian manufacturers through the MEE Cluster for just under a year now, and most of the manufacturers I’ve engaged with are ‘project based’ manufacturers, and...
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 in Collaboration between Ted Duffield (Lightship Works) and Paul Hogendoorn (MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Expert) How can Workflow Automation help SME Manufacturers with the labor crunch? We often get asked how Workflow Automation can help manufacturing...
Written by Paul Hogendoorn, MEE Cluster Digital Transformation Consultant The first thing to understand about “digitization” and information technology is they are not silver bullet solutions that can be applied to correct process problems, be they manufacturing,...
Written by Bruce Ennis, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, MEE Cluster Process Improvement Guru In a story aired on November 25, Gary Manku of Altex Industries told CTV news welding companies are having trouble bidding on projects because “they can’t find enough...
Written by Sarah Olson for the MEE Cluster Smart Manufacturing is digital systems integrated into manufacturing at all levels. It begins with bringing analog data into a digital database. By analyzing data from all the steps in a manufacturing process (including...
Written for the Manufacturing & Export Enhancement Cluster by Alberto Silva, Hexagon Digital transformation is definitely a journey, and smart manufacturing is not necessarily a single digital revolution in your factory. It can be a step-by-step process using...
The Manufacturing & Export Enhancement (MEE) Cluster kicked off its first LEAN for Leaders workshop at Red Deer Polytechnic on Wednesday, November 23. Over 20 attendees from throughout Alberta came to learn about Lean manufacturing best practices. Attendees from...
Even before the pandemic hit Flexcim Manufacturing Services Inc. had already understood that Overall Operations Efficiency (OOE) would have to improve for them to remain competitive, retain margins, and support growth. Flexcim, a provider of product development,...
Written by: Ben Baldwin, VKS Since the introduction of Industry 4.0 over the past decade, Canadian SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises) have seen an incredible boost in advanced technologies. With more powerful machines and stronger materials, modern manufacturing has...