Run the plant on numbers
Planning is the cheapest improvement available to a factory. Before buying a single machine, most units can gain 15–25% more output from the same floor by fixing sequencing, changeovers and manpower allocation.
Areas covered
- Production planning & scheduling against actual demand
- Capacity utilisation — finding and removing the real bottleneck
- Daily production monitoring — a simple sheet the supervisor fills each shift
- Productivity improvement — output per worker per hour, tracked
- Cost control — material, labour and energy per kilogram
- Wastage reduction — measured, targeted, reviewed weekly