Overall Equipment Effectiveness? Get the Measure of Your Production Operations!
Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) is frequently seen as a back-room topic in many manufacturing firms. That’s why it’s often overlooked, while direct materials get the limelight. Getting the Basics...
Dogs Chase Their Tail Because They Are Irritated and That’s How Most Companies Deal With MRO Tail Spend.
In most companies, tail spend goes unnoticed until an executive becomes irritated with excess inventory, bloated carrying costs, inflated shipping fees, or a product outage that brings down a production...
3D SCANNING TECHNOLOGY HELPS SDI SLASH COSTS AND LEAD TIMES FOR MAJOR BEVERAGE COMPANY
When you’re one of the largest beverage and brewing companies in the world, and a filler gear fails on the line, time is money. SDI 3D-scanned the part, converted it...
All companies strive to keep their supply chain costs as low as possible, but many do not seem to be able to drive out inefficiencies in their management of indirect...
Driving Innovation and Out of the Box Thinking with SDI’s Inaugural Open House Event
October 20th marked SDI’s Inaugural Open House – a quarterly event hosted by SDI and strategic partners. This time, we partnered with UPS and their industrial 3D printing partner FastRadius...
A Value Stream Map is simply a visual depiction of a process. By viewing workflow at it stands currently, manufacturing and even service companies can “see” where it is wasting...
Master Data Management: A Window into Your MRO World
Everyone knows that knowledge is power. That axiom is especially true for manufacturing and fabrication companies that use thousands of components, materials, and miscellaneous parts to keep their production lines...
SDI Employees Receive MRO Reliability Training from University of Tennessee
A new training initiative recently attended by employees will help SDI provide customers with even greater alignment of its maintenance, repair, and operations processes. The training is developed and presented...
MRO Engineers: The Knowledge and Experience to Improve Your Processes
So you’ve decided to outsource your Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) processes and are considering the alternatives. Some may favor the ‘easy call’ and go with a parts distributor, but...
