Using AI to Document Manufacturing Processes

The single biggest roadblock to digital transformation isn’t a lack of vision or a lack of budget, it’s a lack of time. For most manufacturers, the move from paper binders to...

The Stress Free Audit: A Guide to Automating Compliance With Connected Worker Software

In many manufacturing facilities, audit season is a period of high-stress firefighting. Operations leaders and quality managers often spend upwards of forty hours a week...

How Dozuki Builds a Proactive Safety Culture.

Manufacturing leaders know that safety is non-negotiable. But when processes are undocumented, feedback is unresolved, and training is outdated, even the most basic tasks...

Navigating Industry 4.0: Insights from a Manufacturing Innovator

"We literally have to create the talent if we can't find it." These inspiring words (and more!) come from our Season 2 kickoff conversation with LaRuthie Mason, who works at...

Best Methods to Reduce Human Error in Manufacturing

In manufacturing, many factors need to be balanced and aligned for companies to be successful. And one of those factors includes the combination of humans and machines...

Best Practices of Food Manufacturing Hygiene Standards

Food manufacturing companies have a responsibility to their customers to maintain high-quality control measures and hygiene standards. These practices are necessary to ensure...

How to Scale Technology Across Manufacturing Operations with 3M

Most manufacturing companies don't have people dedicated to evaluating and deploying modern tools. At best, IT or HR takes responsibility for new technology and doesn't have...

Using Standards to Empower the Frontline Workforce

Chad Nelson is a Lean Six-Sigma Operations Manager at 3M and has a wealth of knowledge about standardized work and engaging frontline workers with improvement efforts. Join...

How to Manage Change on the Plant Floor

Change management is a crucial part of any digital transformation or improvement efforts on the plant floor. But how do you deal with stubborn employees or older workers that...

How Smart Factories are Impacting Productivity

Deloitte research suggests that "smart factory" initiatives have yielded an average of 10-12% increase in labor productivity gains. Despite this success, a majority of...

4 Indirect Ways to Improve Safety on the Plant Floor

Safety managers have a multitude of safety strategies to protect the health and safety of their workforce. From PPE guidelines, LOTO programs, fire exit signage, the list is...

How 3M Continues to Innovate During COVID

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 3M has been integral in maintaining domestic and international supplies of essential PPE. These production and supply chain challenges required...

Is the U.S. Headed for a Manufacturing Boom?

While many industrial businesses are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, good news for U.S. manufacturers may be on the horizon. In the recent April industry report by...

Practical COVID-19 Tips for Manufacturing

We are hearing a lot of great advice from our audience and customers about how to keep manufacturing and industrial operations running smoothly in the midst of a global...

Dozuki Collaborates with 3M to Connect Factory Workers and Digital Transformation Strategies

Today we are happy to announce our collaboration with 3M, through an investment by 3M Ventures, to bring our standard work and work instruction training software to...

Insights from the Field: Can Tribal Knowledge Actually Work?

Recently, I had a chance to visit one of our larger manufacturing clients. Of the many insights gained on that trip, one stood above the rest — tribal knowledge used to...

Vienna Sausage: A Story of Standards and Tribal Knowledge

Imagine that you lost the ability to make your key product. What if your core revenue driver was suddenly different... And you didn't know why. We recently came across a ...

How Sloppy Revision Control Cost WIPP Half a Billion Dollars

In 2014 a nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, NM was the victim of poor revision control practices that lead to a half-billion dollar mistake; shutting...