The Frontline Daily
Bringing you the latest in frontline operations - actionable, educational, and industry-relevant posts.
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Lean Manufacturing
Overcoming Manufacturing Bottlenecks: Tips for Improving the Flow of Production
In this post, we’ll discuss some of the most effective strategies for combatting manufacturing bottlenecks and ensuring an efficient workflow...
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Process Execution
Manufacturing Work Orders: Your Key to Traceability, Quality, and Shop Floor Efficiency
Get a comprehensive overview of the manufacturing work order, its key components, and learn how digitizing work orders eliminates paper...
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Lean Manufacturing
The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing Time Studies in the Connected Factory
Time studies are essential to continuous improvement. They're also easy to get wrong. Read to get the most of out...
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Pharma 4.0
What is Continuous Manufacturing? A Guide for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Learn about continuous manufacturing technologies and how manufacturers apply them to help streamline batch production processes.
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Machine Monitoring
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Dashboard – Your KPIs, Visualized
OEE dashboards are a simple, visual tool for understanding your production. Learn how an OEE dashboard can help you improve...
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Operations Apps
MTBF vs MTTF vs MTTR: Understanding Incident Metrics in the Context of Operations
Incident metrics may not tell the full story of how a failure occurred, but it is the most important performance...
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Quality
Manufacturing Nonconformities – Examples & How to Prevent
Learn what drives nonconformities across products and processes, and how manufacturers can avoid the sources of nonconformities in their operations.
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Pharma 4.0
Electronic Batch Records: How Manufacturers Are Digitizing Their Compliance Procedures
In this post, we'll discuss why manufacturers are focusing on digitizing batch records to help streamline compliance activities.
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AI for Operations
Announcing Composable AI Agents in Tulip: Accelerate Lean in Your Operations
Tulip is introducing Composable AI Agents, digital teammates that can perceive what’s happening, decide on the best course of action...
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Product
Announcing OpsMoto: Operational Visibility, Simplified
Announcing OpsMoto, Tulip’s new dashboard for unified visibility across deployments, apps, automations, and user activity. OpsMoto transforms scattered operational data...
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Quality
Using Quality Control Checklists to Streamline Quality Inspections
In this post, we’ll discuss how manufacturers are using quality control checklists to consistently identify quality issues during the production...
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Compliance
The Manufacturer’s Guide to 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
In this post, we’ll review the regulations outlined in the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 and how life sciences manufacturers...
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Partner
How to Achieve Better Traceability, Quality, and Efficiency with a Connected Factory Framework
Learn how to easily create a Connected Factory Framework to boost your manufacturing traceability, visibility, quality, and workforce efficiency.
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Pharma 4.0
The Importance Of Track & Trace In Pharma Manufacturing
In this post, we’ll discuss the importance of pharmaceutical track and trace systems and how manufacturers are able to streamline...
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Quality
Material Review Board: Deciding the Fate of Nonconforming Materials
In this post, we discuss the role of a Material Review Board and how it helps manufacturers deal with defective...
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Quality
How to Track and Prevent Manufacturing Quality Defects
Learn why quality defect tracking is so important, and how manufacturers can improve their quality management processes.