How to embrace an integrated approach to optimizing shop floor productivity

All manufacturing companies struggle with the need to maximize quality and performance, while continuing to minimize costs. However, there is no ‘magic bullet’ to achieving excellence.

Innovation can lead to excellence, and can be derived from different parts of an organization. People, process and technology are important tenets to explore for alternative designs and solutions in the pursuit of excellence. The ability to come up with alternate designs and methodologies, and assess the opportunity cost of not improving processes on your shop floor, is the first step into increasing visibility into the entire business for lasting and substantial change.

This solution sheet outlines important ways to accelerate productivity, increase output in your operations, and achieve sustainable excellence in manufacturing, including:

• Automating business processes and establishing greater visibility into the productivity of your plant operations
• Cultivating a synergistic culture through leadership, in order to form an organization and an environment based on combined strengths concepts and skills
• Introducing new methodologies such as Lean manufacturing that will help innovate change, streamline operations, reduce waste and improve costs