New Year's resolutions in production

The year 2025 has flown by once again and the new year is already upon us. While good intentions are not only made in our private lives, but also in companies. Of course, in the best case scenario, this happens at the end of the previous year, but implementation only takes place in the new year. A new ‘fresh’ year also gives you the opportunity to sort out the old or implement and optimise new processes.

While New Year's resolutions at the gym often start to falter in the second week of January, resolutions for manufacturing companies determine their competitiveness for the rest of the year. Have you taken enough time to set your resolutions? Often, the problem is that resolutions are too vague. One example is ‘We need to become more efficient.’ This is not a plan, but merely a wishful thinking. To get there, a structured plan should be drawn up that specifically outlines the necessary steps.

I would like to give you a few resolutions that will be essential for many manufacturing companies in the coming years and can have a major impact on the efficiency of companies.

1. Paperless manufacturing: An end to paperwork

I don't know about you, but in my private life I am using less and less paper and more and more my mobile phone to make lists or other notes. Even though I still like to use paper when working at my desk, my use of paper is decreasing. The situation is different in many (especially German) production halls, where handwritten shift logs or printed Excel lists are still used. Paper in production is much slower and can delay processes. This problem can be solved by paperless production with a software system. This is definitely a resolution that many companies should set as a goal for 2026, in their own best interests.

2. Real-time monitoring: Respond quickly

How often in the past year did you only find out afterwards that a machine had been idle for two hours or that the reject rate for a batch was suddenly much higher? Perhaps too often. This is a problem that can be costly and time-consuming from a financial perspective. That is why real-time monitoring is a New Year's resolution that can save enormous costs and where tetys can also provide optimal assistance.

3. Overcoming the shortage of skilled workers with the help of digitalisation

By 2026, demographic change will no longer be an abstract threat, but a bitter reality in factory halls. When experienced shift supervisors or maintenance technicians retire, valuable knowledge about machines and processes is at risk of being lost. At the same time, new, young skilled workers expect modern and digital work tools. Process knowledge often exists only in people's heads and can therefore be more difficult to pass on to others. This makes the shortage of skilled workers an even bigger problem than it already is. Therefore, another resolution would be to implement digital knowledge transfer so that experienced employees can easily pass on all their knowledge to the new generations digitally.

Conclusion

A new year is always a good opportunity for new resolutions, new beginnings or the implementation of new processes. The topic of digitalisation in particular still has a lot of room for improvement at many manufacturing companies and should therefore not be ignored this year. Digital transformation is not a project with a fixed end date, but rather a continuous process. Paperless manufacturing, real-time monitoring and digital knowledge transfer are just a few of the resolutions that can help your company take a step further towards digitalisation, save costs and remain competitive in 2026.

I wish you all a good start to the new year and hope that it will be as successful as you imagine. Perhaps I have been able to give you some food for thought with one or two of these resolutions. If you have any further questions about how tetys can support you with these resolutions, please feel free to contact us here.