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  <item><title>Production bottleneck analysis: how to find the constraint on your line</title><link>https://emboscale.com/blog/production-bottleneck-analysis/</link><guid>https://emboscale.com/blog/production-bottleneck-analysis/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How to find the bottleneck on a production line: compare effective cycle times against takt, check WIP and starvation, then re-test after every fix. Worked example.</description></item>
  <item><title>How long does robot programming take? Pendant vs offline vs AI</title><link>https://emboscale.com/blog/robot-programming-time/</link><guid>https://emboscale.com/blog/robot-programming-time/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Robot programming time depends on the method: teach pendant stops the robot, offline programming moves the work to a PC, AI shifts it to review. A worked comparison.</description></item>
  <item><title>Line balancing calculation: stations, efficiency, and balance delay, worked through</title><link>https://emboscale.com/blog/line-balancing-calculation/</link><guid>https://emboscale.com/blog/line-balancing-calculation/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How to calculate line balancing: minimum stations, line efficiency, and balance delay, with a full worked example, and the case where the formula is wrong.</description></item>
  <item><title>Takt time vs cycle time: the two numbers that run your line</title><link>https://emboscale.com/blog/takt-time-vs-cycle-time/</link><guid>https://emboscale.com/blog/takt-time-vs-cycle-time/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Takt time is the rhythm demand sets; cycle time is the pace your stations actually achieve. Confusing them hides bottlenecks and burns capacity. Definitions, formulas, and a worked example.</description></item>
  <item><title>Can you trust AI-written robot programs?</title><link>https://emboscale.com/blog/how-we-verify-ai-robot-programs/</link><guid>https://emboscale.com/blog/how-we-verify-ai-robot-programs/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>AI can write robot programs from a prompt. Whether you can run them depends on one thing: what checks them. What verification should mean in agentic robot programming.</description></item>
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