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A secret to productivity: the full kit

To ensure plant performance and productivity, all you need to do is ensure that the flow flows naturally and without friction through the manufacturing stages. As soon as something is missing, we stop-and-go, and this deteriorates operational performance. We’re missing something, we have to put aside what we’d planned to do, we stop to solve … Read more

S&OP and workload/capacity: leveraging RCCP

Anticipating capacity constraints in an industrial company is an essential but delicate exercise, and one that is rarely properly carried out and equipped. What is RCCP? According to ASCM, RCCP (Rough Cut Capacity Planning) is the process of converting the master production schedule into key resource requirements, usually in terms of manpower, machinery, warehouse space, … Read more