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Your employees need to succeed by themselves. Do not wait because when you do, you are as bad as the rest of the procrastinators and run the risk to fall behind your competitors. Challenge your employees now because it is a great idea.
Questions to ask about producing or making more in the same time frame, tooling, delays, reasons for waiting and who holds up everyone? Ask one or more of these questions of all your employees:
- Can we make five of something in a row, then cut or separate them simultaneously in the last operation? Versus making one in a row?
- Are there problems with tooling that need to be corrected or improved? Which product? How does the tooling negatively impact the time for the production process?
- What delays you from doing your job that could be corrected, sped up, eliminated, changed or modified in some manner?
- What do you have to wait on every day that keeps you from starting to work? Is it a person who is too slow, a forklift that will not start, the guard who arrives late who opens the facility door or is it a department where excess absenteeism drives down productivity in all directions?
- Is there someone or a department that immediately pops into your head that you believe holds up everyone from getting to work and or doing their job because of their inaction, slow response or unpreparedness?
- I would like for you in the engineering department to devise a method that produces twice as many (you name the product) in the same time that is required now. Remember that even if you do not cut the time in half, any improvement is a great cost savings for the firm.
- Can we take another look at the current production approach and think about simultaneously making multiple parts versus the current ‘one at a time’.
- Can our tooling be changed in order to make the process faster, easier, on specification, etc.?
- Can the work center be redesigned (i.e. to be easier, to be faster, to be safer, to be cooler, hotter, to be more efficient, to waste less material)?
- Do we have the wrong personnel on any work center and if so, what needs to be done to improve profitability? What type of training needs to be done?
- Do we need to consider paying out an incentive based upon good finished pieces for the work area personnel to boost production?
- If we need to pay incentives, is there a great firm in town who knows how to do this if we can hire them for this project?
- If there is someone on staff who knows how to implement a bonus program that will boost production – I need that person to work quickly on this project from start to production finish to ensure we increase our productivity. There is a bonus in it for that guy so find him, now!
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