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Manufacturing Menu: The Power of Quality Management and Compliance
In the fast-paced world of manufacturing, ensuring world-class quality isn't just a nice to have - it's a necessity. Every aspect of your business, from production processes to finished products, must meet stringent standards to protect your reputation, ensure customer satisfaction and comply with regulations. That's why implementing a robust quality management system is essential to the success and longevity of your manufacturing business. First and foremost, quality management is about protecting your workforce. In a high-stakes environment where machinery hums and production lines buzz, safety protocols aren't just guidelines - they're a lifeline. By meticulously documenting and diligently enforcing safety measures, you reduce the risk of accidents, injuries and costly downtime. Investing in quality ensures that your employees can work safely and securely, fostering a culture of trust and well-being within your organization. This is why quality plays a critical role in any manufacturing success.
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How Autohopper Significantly Improved Their Mendix Application
Autohopper is the straightforward car rental service in the Netherlands. If you need to rent a car or a van, Autohopper has you covered. With over 100 locations, Autohopper is the car rental service with the most extensive network in the Netherlands. To manage their services effectively, they utilize a Mendix application. The existing application received a rating of 2 from Autohopper's franchisees, prompting them to engage Emixa to optimize the app.
Manufacturing Menu: Optimize Resources and Performance with Top Tools
Manufacturing companies operate in a challenging and dynamic marketplace. They face volatile prices, fluctuating raw material availability and increasingly complex supply chains. In addition, reducing waste is high on the sustainability agenda, and finding enough skilled workers in a tight technical labour market is no easy task. To strike the right balance between resource utilization, cost optimization and supply chain optimization, optimal performance and efficient utilization of the production environment is essential. By improving the utilization of your factory and the performance of your equipment, you can increase productivity, improve job satisfaction and optimize collaboration throughout the production and supply chain. This is why this part of a manufacturing company's operations has a prominent place in Emixa's Manufacturing Menu.
Manufacturing Menu: Boost Marketing & Sales with Mendix Dealer Portal
What is the secret of B2B marketing and sales in the digital age? Personalization and strong engagement with your dealers. This is achieved by having a good understanding of their needs and wishes and establishing powerful integration between all your communication and sales channels. Building and actively using a dealer portal is a great solution for manufacturing companies and B2B sellers to boost their marketing and sales activities. But what can you do with a dealer portal? And what are the benefits? We'll tell you in this article and show how the combined knowledge and experience of the companies within Emixa help in developing a modern, versatile and future-proof dealer platform.
A Fully Automated Exam Flow with EMO
In collaboration with Emixa, Examenadviesburo developed the application EMO, a solution that streamlines the entire exam flow. We spoke with General Director Anne Prins-van den Bergh about the development process, the collaboration with Emixa, and the benefits of the new system.
Maximise production with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a common Key Performance Indicator within industry, which compares actual production output with the maximum capacity of production processes.
Manufacturing Menu: Ensuring Safety & Health with the Right Technology
We live in an era where corporate social responsibility (CSR) holds a prominent place on the priority lists of companies and regulatory bodies within the manufacturing industry. As requirements become increasingly stringent and expectations higher, safety, health, and environmental consciousness collectively form a key ingredient of Emixa's Manufacturing Menu.
What is LEAN Manufacturing?
Lean manufacturing, also known as lean production, is a method of making production processes more efficient by reducing waste and optimising workflows. This is done by systematically analysing and continuously improving each part of the process. The aim is to use materials, time and labour as effectively as possible, leading to lower costs, higher productivity and better quality. A commonly used technique within lean is Just in Time (JIT), but both methods have a different focus. Lean focuses on optimising the entire production process and operational management, while JIT is mainly about smart inventory management. Although they are not the same, they complement each other. Many Lean tools, such as streamlined production flow, are used to achieve JIT goals. Both methods help companies minimise waste and create more value for customers.