TranSystems|TAG White Papers

Top Ten Mistakes of a Plant or Facility Relocation   

The prospect of managing a manufacturing plant, distribution center, or warehouse, can be both daunting and intimidating.  The potential for project delays, damages, and cost overruns is enough to keep many project managers up at night.  With a well thought out plan however, the relocation can be both successfully completed and a real opportunity for improvement.  So what are the top mistakes that project managers make?  After many years of observing and participating in plant & facility relocations or consolidations, here we share some of the most common mistakes we have observed.  Click here to download.

Visual Conditions Improve As Systematic Equipment Improvement Is Made Through TPM 

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a partnership between operators, maintenance personnel, leadership, and the entire organization in the care and maintenance of equipment. Outside of the associates that make up the organization, capital equipment is the most important resource an organization obtains. There are several quantitative metrics that organizations track that indicate or measure TPM effectiveness. However qualitatively, the most significant factors that indicate that a TPM system is beginning to work is first, the improvement in visual conditions of the equipment and second, the involvement of the operators in regards to the equipment. Click here to download.