Category: Concept – Page 3

Uber Speed Revolution

Recently, Frain Integration spent over 500 hours of research time in interviewing 100 Brand Owners, CEOs and Plant Managers

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Uberization: Maximizing Idle Assets

We are living in an era where technology and instant access is the norm, in particular to millennials.  With expectations

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Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

Efficiency: “Accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.”
 
Effectiveness: “Adequate

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Trusting The Experts

I’m not sure about a lot of you reading this, but I know for a fact that I could not

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Variable vs Fixed Expenses

Variable and fixed expenses are things that every company deals with. Variable expenses fluctuate from month to month whereas fixed

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Blown Cartons

To be completely honest with you, I’m a pretty lazy guy. I’m always looking for an easier ways to do

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Anywhen

Does your plant run anywhen or whenever?
You know, like when you try to schedule an appointment with the cable

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THE FENCE

English author G.K. Chesterton once wrote about the paradox of the fence. He asked the reader to suppose that they

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ONE MINUTE CHANGEOVER

Everyone wants to do lean (fast) changeovers. How about one minute changeover?
About 30 years ago Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer

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UNINTENDED PURPOSES

In his January column in Modern Machine Shop magazine, Mark Albert wrote an article about what he called “unintended purposes”.

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STEREOTYPES

The other night I carried the dirty clothes down to the washing machine. I started putting them in but my

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ARE YOU LAZY?

Full disclosure: I am (just ask my wife) and I am proud of it.
What about you?
Before you get

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