The FMCG manufacturing cycle - for products including processed food, beverages, dry goods, cosmetics, toiletries and prepared food - starts from raw materials and ends with the finished product, followed by despatch. To ensure minimum contamination, uniform quality and hygiene, touch-free manufacturing is resorted to. While automation using conveyors, [...]
UV Curing technology has benefited many industries, providing superior bonding, improving efficiency, and ensuring lesser errors and wastage. About UV Curing UV radiation is widely used in industrial processes, in medical and dental practices for a variety of purposes, such as killing bacteria, creating fluorescent effects, curing inks and resins, [...]
Palletising plays a vital role in any production line as it performs the task of the last mile before a batch is readied for despatch. It impacts the production metrics indirectly, as any bottleneck in the last mile before despatch will need a corresponding halt in production. The design of [...]
The shift to Electric Vehicles (EVs) is happening world-wide, more rapidly in India today. The purchasing power of India’s burgeoning middle class is increasing, and more people are investing in vehicles. With the increasing cost of fossil-fuels in India, the need for EVs is acute here. However, the scarcity of [...]
The Indian industry has grown by leaps and bounds since the economy was opened for foreign investment in the early 90s. Irrespective of the government of the day, the industrialisation policy has remained a constant. The states of India are competing with each other in a healthy investment ecosystem. In [...]
Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) was first described as the nucleus of the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodology in Seiichi Nakajima’s book TPM TENKAI in 1982. Gaining momentum from the late eighties, OEE courses have become a standard in TPM curriculum and their use is widespread across a wide range of [...]
