The financial impact of downtime can be staggering. Whether it’s one line, or a whole plan, losing production capacity can have devastating impact on production capacity, sales and customer retention, revenue and profit margins.

Plus, as technology advances and systems become better integrated in the march towards Industry 4.0 and the internet of things, unexpected systems issues can cause devastating and unanticipated impacts. So what’s a modern manufacturer to do?

Enter Lean. By resolving root cause issues through a systematic process to identify and target uptime in critical operations, manufacturing operations leaders can track key KPI metrics for overall operational effectiveness and engage employees from the frontline up to proactively monitor and meet (or exceed) targets. In this post, CME covers 8 ways to eliminate downtime that every manufacturing operations leader needs to know.

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As technology advances and systems become better integrated in the march towards Industry 4.0 and the internet of things, unexpected systems issues can cause devastating and unanticipated impacts.