5 Essential Lean Manufacturing Tools Explained – Infographic

If you’ve followed Fiix’s recent posts, you’ll know that maintenance plays a pivotal role in lean manufacturing. Yet lean is just one of many operational philosophies. In this article we dissect Six Sigma, highlight its commonalities with lean, and illustrate where they diverge. What sets lean and S

If you’ve read even just a few of the posts on the Fishbowl Blog, you know that Fishbowl Inventory offers a comprehensive set of inventory management tools for small and mid-size businesses. Fishbowl Inventory is not only a great tool for retailers, wholesalers and other sellers, but for manufacture

While business is competitive by nature, few industries are as fiercely competitive as manufacturing. Having the latest technology can be a vital asset to your businesses success and how you fund that equipment may be even more vital. Whether you use company profits, lines of credit, bank loans or a

A robot workcell should be designed in a way that improves efficiency, reduces cost and improves part quality for the given robotic application. Pre-engineered workcells are designed on the principles of lean manufacturing to improve application flow and eliminate waste during the p