Blog & Featured Article’s
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:
How to Create Digital Work Instructions for Manufacturing
Digital work instructions help manufacturers standardise production by giving operators clear, step-by-step guidance directly at the workstation. Effective digital work instructions reduce confusion, improve training consistency, and help manufacturers maintain...
How to Reduce Operator Error in Manufacturing
Operator error in manufacturing is often caused by unclear instructions, inconsistent processes, and paper-based production methods. Manufacturers reduce operator error by standardising work, building checks into production, and giving operators clearer guidance...
How to Implement Traceability in Manufacturing
Traceability in manufacturing helps manufacturers track how products move through production, what materials were used, and what checks were completed along the way. It plays an important role in quality control, audits, and resolving production issues when they...
Manufacturing Traceability Explained
Manufacturing traceability is the ability to track materials, components, and work through production, linking each step to a specific product or serial number. It matters because it creates a clear record of how a product was built, making it easier to meet audit...
How to Create a Manufacturing Traveller (Free Template)
A manufacturing traveller is a document that follows a product through production, setting out each step, what needs to be done, and what must be recorded. To create one, you define the process sequence, add clear operation-level detail, and include the checks and...
Reducing Variation in your Manufacturing Process
Reducing variation in manufacturing starts with creating a consistent process that operators can follow the same way every time. Variation often comes from inconsistent materials, unclear instructions, different working methods between shifts, or checks happening too...
The Best Tools for Reducing Production Mistakes
Every manufacturer wants to reduce production mistakes. The best way to do that? Use tools that make errors hard, or impossible, to happen in the first place. Here’s a breakdown of the most effective error-proofing tools being used on the factory floor today, from...
How to Solve Production Issue Reporting in Manufacturing
Every factory has issues. The real difference is how quickly you catch them, how easily you trace them, and how confidently you fix them. Without a clear process for production issue reporting, problems get lost in paperwork, operators stay silent, and quality slips...
Operator Training in Manufacturing
Operator training in manufacturing isn’t just about ticking a box. It’s about making sure people know how to do the job safely, accurately, and consistently… without needing constant supervision. If training isn’t clear or consistent, you’ll see it in the results:...
Digital Work Instructions Tips for Manufacturers
Digital Work Instructions are changing how manufacturers build products. By replacing paper manuals with step-by-step digital guidance, companies are cutting errors, speeding up training, and simplifying the shop floor. In this post, we’ll break down the real benefits...
Education & Resources
How to Create Digital Work Instructions for Manufacturing
Digital work instructions help manufacturers standardise production by giving operators clear, step-by-step guidance directly at the workstation. Effective digital work instructions reduce confusion, improve training consistency, and help manufacturers maintain...
How to Reduce Operator Error in Manufacturing
Operator error in manufacturing is often caused by unclear instructions, inconsistent processes, and paper-based production methods. Manufacturers reduce operator error by standardising work, building checks into production, and giving operators clearer guidance...
How to Implement Traceability in Manufacturing
Traceability in manufacturing helps manufacturers track how products move through production, what materials were used, and what checks were completed along the way. It plays an important role in quality control, audits, and resolving production issues when they...
Manufacturing Traceability Explained
Manufacturing traceability is the ability to track materials, components, and work through production, linking each step to a specific product or serial number. It matters because it creates a clear record of how a product was built, making it easier to meet audit...
How to Create a Manufacturing Traveller (Free Template)
A manufacturing traveller is a document that follows a product through production, setting out each step, what needs to be done, and what must be recorded. To create one, you define the process sequence, add clear operation-level detail, and include the checks and...
Reducing Variation in your Manufacturing Process
Reducing variation in manufacturing starts with creating a consistent process that operators can follow the same way every time. Variation often comes from inconsistent materials, unclear instructions, different working methods between shifts, or checks happening too...
The Best Tools for Reducing Production Mistakes
Every manufacturer wants to reduce production mistakes. The best way to do that? Use tools that make errors hard, or impossible, to happen in the first place. Here’s a breakdown of the most effective error-proofing tools being used on the factory floor today, from...
How to Solve Production Issue Reporting in Manufacturing
Every factory has issues. The real difference is how quickly you catch them, how easily you trace them, and how confidently you fix them. Without a clear process for production issue reporting, problems get lost in paperwork, operators stay silent, and quality slips...
Operator Training in Manufacturing
Operator training in manufacturing isn’t just about ticking a box. It’s about making sure people know how to do the job safely, accurately, and consistently… without needing constant supervision. If training isn’t clear or consistent, you’ll see it in the results:...
Digital Work Instructions Tips for Manufacturers
Digital Work Instructions are changing how manufacturers build products. By replacing paper manuals with step-by-step digital guidance, companies are cutting errors, speeding up training, and simplifying the shop floor. In this post, we’ll break down the real benefits...
‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ interviews
Inside a micro manufacturing business with Mike Adkins
Micro manufacturing often sits in a different position to larger operations. In this episode, Martin is joined by Mike Adkins, owner of Performance Results Plus, to talk about how a micro manufacturing business can stay steady over time. Mike shares his experience of...
Why Good Designs Fail with Dianna Deeney
In this episode of Manufacturers Make Strides, the conversation focuses on manufacturing design collaboration and what happens when design and production teams work too far apart. Dianna Deeney, a quality and reliability engineer, talks about why siloed working still...
Breaking the Firefighting Cycle in Manufacturing
Manufacturing process improvement often focuses on what happens on the shop floor, but many of the challenges that teams face begin much earlier in the process. In this episode of the Manufacturers Make Strides podcast, Samantha Benbow shares her experience working...
Making Change Stick in Manufacturing with Ron Crabtree
Manufacturing Change Management affects every part of a factory, from day to day operations to long term improvement. In this episode, we speak with Ron Crabtree, a long time practitioner who has worked across shop floor environments and complex transformation...
Run your manufacturing business like you’re going to sell it with Adina Fetche
Manufacturing business growth can mean many things depending on the size of the company, the people involved and the structure supporting day to day work. In this episode, Adina Fetche talks about what helps manufacturers build a strong base for steady progress. She...
Building Better Engineering Teams with Marisa Kurimbokus
Engineering teams work differently depending on the people involved, the environments they operate in and the pressures around them. In this episode, Marisa Kurimbokus talks about how teams in manufacturing can function well, what helps them collaborate and what...
Managing complexity in aerospace engineering with Mark Cook
Aerospace engineering brings together complex design, strict regulation, and long production timelines. Unlike faster-moving sectors, aerospace programmes are shaped by safety requirements, certification processes, and close coordination across engineering, supply...
Building a Manufacturing Business That Lasts with Larry Dix II
Manufacturing leadership often looks different in owner-led businesses compared to large corporate environments. Decisions are closer to the work, accountability is more personal, and the impact of leadership choices is felt quickly on the factory floor. This...
What a financially healthy factory actually looks like
Manufacturing businesses often look busy on the surface, yet still feel uncertain beneath it. In this episode of Manufacturers Make Strides, Martin speaks with Stewart Ervin about what financially healthy manufacturing actually looks like in practice.The conversation...
How values shape modern manufacturing with Angelo D’Amico
Values-driven manufacturing is often discussed, but less often described in practical terms. In this episode of Manufacturers Make Strides, the conversation focuses on what it looks like when values guide decisions in real manufacturing environments. The discussion...
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...
Dynamic Data & 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...
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