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http://www.strategosinc.com/workcell.htm
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The genious
The Genious
You can benchmark procedures of preventive maintenance, trainings, procedures of a same type machine and never wait to have the same results.
The best approach to achive downtime REDUCTION (no elimination) is:
1. Measure your process downtimes (for example as described by finman above)
2. Make a...