The Machine That Needs Servicing Isn’t the One Whose Date Came Up
Calendar servicing maintains machines that barely ran and misses the one going three shifts a day. What to measure instead, and why three intervals beat one.
Practical guides to manufacturing, projects and operations — from the team building Capitán.
Calendar servicing maintains machines that barely ran and misses the one going three shifts a day. What to measure instead, and why three intervals beat one.
Every accounting package says it is compliant. The useful question is which obligations it produces as files, and which ones still end with somebody retyping numbers.
Most companies cannot say whether a job made money. Not because the arithmetic is hard, but because the hours, the materials and the callbacks were never recorded against it.
Two legitimate methods value the same shelf differently, and the gap lands in your reported margin. What FIFO and moving average actually do, and when it matters.
A payslip is not gross times a rate. It is three separate statutory bases, rate tables that change every January, and one thing an engine must never do: guess.
Most companies don’t lose time inside their systems. They lose it in the gaps between them — every place a number gets typed a second time. Here’s the fix.
AI will happily build you an inventory app in an afternoon. Here is the test for what to vibe-code and what to buy — and where the two actually meet.
Paper, spreadsheets or a connected system — an honest comparison of what each costs in delay and accuracy, and how to move without a big-bang project.
OEE multiplies availability, performance and quality into one number. The calculation, a worked example, and the traps that make it meaningless.
Most plants know the line stops too often but cannot rank the causes. How to measure downtime by cause and fix the ones costing you real hours.