Riccardo Consonni

Medical Device Manufacturing: Today’s Approach to the 5Ms of Manufacturing

December 20, 2017

Pressure has never been greater for medical device manufacturers. The introduction of new products, accelerated clearance processes, and the ability to efficiently run new manufacturing activities in…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Medical Device Manufacturing | Automating Product Quality

December 6, 2017

This is a fundamental truth in manufacturing: delivering quality products means controlling the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you are in medical device manufa…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Beyond the 5Ms | Part 6: Additional benefits of modern MES

November 15, 2017

In this blog series, we got back to basics for manufacturers. Delivering product quality is still rooted in controlling the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. However…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 5 – Method

November 8, 2017

There are some basic tenets of manufacturing that we’ve been reviewing in this blog series. Control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method – is critical for creatin…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 4 – Measure

November 1, 2017

In this blog series, we’ve been getting back to basics. Product quality is rooted in the control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you get those right, you…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 3 – Machine

October 25, 2017

This blog series continues as we discuss the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. Part 3 focuses on control of machines.
In the previous blogs, we said that the p…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 2 – Man

October 18, 2017

In the first part of our blog in this series, we made the observation that, despite the environment of change we see in the manufacturing industry today, some things always stay the same. Like the ba…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 1 – Material

October 11, 2017

The more things change, the more they stay the same – translating a French proverb, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Wiktionary interprets this, “Turbulent changes do not affect reality on…

By Riccardo Consonni
3 MIN READ

Looking at Operational Excellence as a Value Stream

September 20, 2017

As we discussed in a previous blog, “From Point Solutions to Value Streams,” it’s time to look at the systems infrastructure of medical device manufacturers not as point solutions tackling particular…

By Riccardo Consonni
3 MIN READ