Improving Productivity Raises Service Levels and Boosts Your Bottom Line

摘要

On the surface finishing job shop level, increasing productivity means getting more parts out the door in less time. A fact of manufacturing life is that surface finishing is usually the last in the manufacturing sequence, and there is always pressure to prevent that 1 dollars worth of finishing from holding up the delivery of a 100 dollars product. For the manufacturer, improving productivity translates into less cost and a resultant higher profit. Recognize the need: Productivity cannot be increased unless we accept the premise that any process can be improved through innovation. Going along with a non-innovative supervisor's response of, "this is the way we have always done things" will never result in increased production efficiency. In addition, the typical worker's response of, "we are working as fast as we can" is a typical, but unacceptable answer.