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Welcome to our blog, where innovation meets insight. Dive into our collections, from expert interviews in ‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ to the latest Tascus product updates and educational resources designed to elevate manufacturing excellence. Explore, learn, and lead the change with us.

Our Recent Blog Posts:

The Essential Manufacturing Shutdown Checklist

In manufacturing, shutdowns are inevitable. Whether it’s for routine maintenance, upgrades, or unexpected issues, a well-planned shutdown can make all the difference between a smooth restart and a prolonged downtime. For manufacturing engineers, having a comprehensive...

What is a Manufacturing Execution System?

In the evolving world of manufacturing, staying ahead of the competition requires more than just advanced machinery and skilled labour. It necessitates the adoption of sophisticated digital solutions that can streamline operations, enhance productivity, and ensure...

How to Implement Traceability in Manufacturing

In the rapidly evolving manufacturing industry, traceability has become a critical component for ensuring quality, compliance, and efficiency. Implementing a robust traceability system allows manufacturers to track the entire lifecycle of a product, from raw materials...

The Lean Manufacturing Approach to Cost Control

In today's highly competitive manufacturing landscape, controlling costs while maintaining high quality is paramount. Lean manufacturing, a methodology that emphasises efficiency by eliminating waste and optimising processes, offers a powerful approach to achieving...

Manufacturing Work Instructions: Best Practices for Quality

Clear and effective work instructions are crucial for ensuring quality and efficiency on the production floor. Work instructions provide detailed guidelines for workers to follow, helping to reduce errors, enhance safety, and maintain consistency in product output. As...

Why Your Factory Needs a Paperless Manufacturing System

In today’s manufacturing industry, efficiency, accuracy, and sustainability are more crucial than ever. The traditional paper-based methods are not only cumbersome and prone to errors but also environmentally unfriendly. Enter the paperless manufacturing system – a...

How to Create a Manufacturing Traveler

In the world of manufacturing, keeping track of production processes is crucial for efficiency, quality control, and traceability. A key tool for this purpose is the manufacturing traveler, a document that accompanies a product as it moves through different stages of...

Success with Manufacturing Traceability

In today's competitive manufacturing landscape, ensuring efficiency, product quality, and customer satisfaction is paramount. Traceability, the ability to track every step of the manufacturing process, plays a crucial role in achieving these goals. By implementing...

Simple Ways to Improve Sustainability in Manufacturing

Sustainability in manufacturing is no longer just a buzzword—it's a crucial element for the future of the industry. As environmental concerns grow and regulations tighten, manufacturers are seeking innovative ways to reduce their carbon footprint, minimize waste, and...

Solving Key Pain Points in Manufacturing with Tascus MES

One of the largest unseen impacts of the outdated manufacturing industry is the negative effect on people working in it. They are becoming demoralised, by building faulty products, caused by manual errors that could be avoided. The major inefficiencies holding back...

Education & Resources

The Essential Manufacturing Shutdown Checklist

In manufacturing, shutdowns are inevitable. Whether it’s for routine maintenance, upgrades, or unexpected issues, a well-planned shutdown can make all the difference between a smooth restart and a prolonged downtime. For manufacturing engineers, having a comprehensive...

What is a Manufacturing Execution System?

In the evolving world of manufacturing, staying ahead of the competition requires more than just advanced machinery and skilled labour. It necessitates the adoption of sophisticated digital solutions that can streamline operations, enhance productivity, and ensure...

How to Implement Traceability in Manufacturing

In the rapidly evolving manufacturing industry, traceability has become a critical component for ensuring quality, compliance, and efficiency. Implementing a robust traceability system allows manufacturers to track the entire lifecycle of a product, from raw materials...

The Lean Manufacturing Approach to Cost Control

In today's highly competitive manufacturing landscape, controlling costs while maintaining high quality is paramount. Lean manufacturing, a methodology that emphasises efficiency by eliminating waste and optimising processes, offers a powerful approach to achieving...

Manufacturing Work Instructions: Best Practices for Quality

Clear and effective work instructions are crucial for ensuring quality and efficiency on the production floor. Work instructions provide detailed guidelines for workers to follow, helping to reduce errors, enhance safety, and maintain consistency in product output. As...

Why Your Factory Needs a Paperless Manufacturing System

In today’s manufacturing industry, efficiency, accuracy, and sustainability are more crucial than ever. The traditional paper-based methods are not only cumbersome and prone to errors but also environmentally unfriendly. Enter the paperless manufacturing system – a...

How to Create a Manufacturing Traveler

In the world of manufacturing, keeping track of production processes is crucial for efficiency, quality control, and traceability. A key tool for this purpose is the manufacturing traveler, a document that accompanies a product as it moves through different stages of...

Success with Manufacturing Traceability

In today's competitive manufacturing landscape, ensuring efficiency, product quality, and customer satisfaction is paramount. Traceability, the ability to track every step of the manufacturing process, plays a crucial role in achieving these goals. By implementing...

Simple Ways to Improve Sustainability in Manufacturing

Sustainability in manufacturing is no longer just a buzzword—it's a crucial element for the future of the industry. As environmental concerns grow and regulations tighten, manufacturers are seeking innovative ways to reduce their carbon footprint, minimize waste, and...

Solving Key Pain Points in Manufacturing with Tascus MES

One of the largest unseen impacts of the outdated manufacturing industry is the negative effect on people working in it. They are becoming demoralised, by building faulty products, caused by manual errors that could be avoided. The major inefficiencies holding back...

‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ interviews

Navigating the Future of EV Supply Chains with Bhavik Shah

Introduction Hey there, welcome to another episode of the Manufacturers Makes Strides podcast. I'm your host, Martin Griffiths. Joining us today is Bhavik Shah, an electric vehicle technology expert and the business growth manager at Unipart Automotive. Bhavik has...

How To Make Your Mark by Engaging Employees

There’s a difference between being a business owner, and being a true entrepreneur; the latter has a passion, a spark, a hunger to drive their legacy forward and make a lasting difference in their industry. Mark Whitten is one such individual. His commitment to not...

How Visualising Data is Improving Productivity

Just as there’s a storyteller behind every novel, every car on the road is made possible by the manufacturers of steel and aluminium. But not every manufacturer is created equal… Led by Arun Thandapani, Hirschvogel is a pioneering steel and aluminium part supplier...

Changing the Automobile Game with Multipurpose Modular Vans

The way we move never stays the same for very long. Humans have transitioned from foot to carriage to car, and now, P.J Tezza is escorting mankind into the next generation of mobility – ModVans. The result of 1000+ hours of work and an unrelenting refusal to take no...

The Future of E-Vehicles…Changing the Way You Charge

E-vehicles were once considered the future of mobility. Now, it’s a solid present-day reality for drivers around the world. Countless drivers are now hopping into electric or hybrid cars, trucks, and buses instead of their fossil-fuelled powered counterparts. However,...

America and Automation… And the People Behind Both

Automation is one of the hottest topics in the engineering and manufacturing industries. The speed, efficiency, and potential hurdles of automation are the points of discussion on every agenda – including ours today. We’re talking to the co-founder of an online...

A Sparkling Future For Automotive Sensor Manufacturing

Technology has made incredible progress in the past few years. It makes our lives faster, simpler, and easier than ever. Even the way we park and drive our cars has become effortless thanks to sensitive motion detectors and sensors. Unfortunately, there never seems to...

Breaking The Manufacturing Start-Up Mold

Starting a new venture and breaking away from what you know is overwhelming, scary, and often, incredibly rewarding. What are some of the secrets to a successful manufacturing start-up that will not quit? What key lessons will help you break into the space with...

Robotic Process Automation

Draw. Inspect. Fail. Repeat. There are few things as frustrating in the engineering and development fields as the usually painful and ever-repetitive process of creating drawings from CAD models. That’s where Vin Kettay and Brian Gullette of Vectra Automation are...

How Actionable Sustainability In Manufacturing Can Save The World

Our world is facing some incredibly pressing issues at the moment, and companies around the globe are looking for new ways to solve them. Actionable sustainability in manufacturing – and how to achieve it as quickly and as effectively as possible – is the topic of the...

Product Updates

Tighten Multiple Fasteners in One Quick and Easy Step

With the aim of making it simpler to control the process of tightening multiple fasteners in one process, we’ve just published a Tascus update that enables you to tighten a batch of fasteners in one Tascus step. Configuring a Batch Tighten To tighten a batch of...

Adding Dynamic Data to Digital Work Instructions

We've just released a new feature to Tascus Manufacturing Execution System. It enables manufacturers to add dynamic data to digital work instructions. During the manufacturing process, you can eliminate the use of notepads to track measurements, readings and other...

Updated Production Views, Best Before Dates & ERP Integration

We've included a number of new features in Tascus 1.2.5.3 to enable integration with ERP systems, create serial numbers, updated Best Before Dates, and more clarity on the production status report. Best Before Dates Best Before Dates (BBD) can now be configured in...

Tools for the Manufacturing Daily Stand Up Meeting

Tools for Manufacturing Daily Stand Up MeetingsHaving regular and effective daily management is one of the key things to make sure that you hit your manufacturing goals and achieve your production target -  weekly, monthly and quarterly. Within daily management, one...

Smart Factory Blueprint

Tools to help you go Paperless:
Boost Quality, and Accelerate Your Operations

Download our free Smart Factory Blueprint to redefine operational clarity and excellence for your organisation.