The 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing (And How to Reduce Them)

Lean manufacturing processes reduce waste throughout production. However, little is told about what is defined as “waste.” Simply put, the wastes of lean manufacturing cover steps, processes, or materials that don’t bring value to customers. To incur the most customer...

What to Know About Fibreflex Vegetable Fiber Gaskets

Breiner Innovative manufactures many kinds of custom parts, gaskets, and seals in a variety of non-metallic materials. Depending on what properties you need—be it strength, solvent or temperature resistance—there’s a material to fulfill those qualities. For a material...

Non-Metallic Materials for Medical Manufacturing

Medical manufacturing requires some of the highest degree of care and precision when creating custom parts. We at Breiner recognize the importance of medical parts, and thus work painstakingly to ensure each material used meets FDA requirements and meets the quality...

3 Properties of Cellulose Gaskets

Working with nonmetallic materials has taught us a thing or two about what end users can expect from the custom parts we make for them. For more than 70 years, the team at Breiner has worked with thousands of these materials, and one we particularly work with is...

The 10 Essential Material Handling Principles

Within the manufacturing industry, material handling principles help manufacturers streamline the resourcing, moving, shipping, and replacing parts for production. In an industry where customer satisfaction relies on delivery, material handling is an essential tool to...

How to Reduce Overhead Costs in Manufacturing

Budgeting production expenses is a high priority across the manufacturing industry due to the cost of materials, labor, and utilities. However, reducing overhead costs seems to be the greatest challenge for business owners as they try to maintain production quality....