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Improving Business Productivity
Improving business productivity isn't just about controlling costs, it's about being competitive and responsive, about continuous innovation and improvement, sustaining high performance, delivering reliability and quality - all the factors involved in managing your business resources, which include:
| • Equipment | • Finance |
| • Work & storage space | • Information & IT systems |
| • Raw materials | • Time |
| • Energy | • Staff |
| • Land | • Knowledge |
| • Buildings | • Talent |
Productivity can be measured at various levels - business, division, department, team, individual or equipment. Rarely will a single issue be the cause of or solution to a productivity problem; several factors will have an impact.
Specific Improvement Opportunities
What kind of things can you do to improve the performance and productivity of your business? To realise your output potential you need to change the way you think. This means embracing the principles of approaches such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean, “Just in Time” (JIT), Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Systems Thinking, which are:
• engage your workforce
• foster continuous improvement
• improve housekeeping
• eliminate wasteful activities
• improve flow
• reduce batch sizes
• optimise throughput
• reduce process variability
• reduce handling
• improve space utilisation
• remove bottlenecks
• monitor equipment effectiveness
• replenish just in time
• improve supply logistics
This thinking will move your enterprise towards world-class...
• establish visual feedback controls
• reduce waste/scrap (materials)
• improve changeover times
• improve maintenance regimes
• establish work standards & procedures
• reduce defects/minimise re-work
• ease administrative burdens
• optimize admin & marketing systems
• establish performance measures
• improve space/workflow layouts
• balance lines
• optimize manning levels
• level production
• "pull" rather than "push"
Call 01933 396891 NOW to explore the opportunities for YOUR business!
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