Low Productivity
Symptoms (What do you see...)
- Insufficient finished goods.
- A quagmire of material in production area.
- Unhappy customers.
- Confusion on how to produce product.
- High labor costs.
- Late shipments.
- Missed production schedules.
Causes (What you’ve got...)
- Untrained or poorly trained production staff.
- Inefficient material purchases.
- Cash flow problems.
- Bad bills of materials or routing.
- Quality problems.
- Material shortages.
- Supplier delays.
- Lack of support systems or proper equipment.
Solutions (What might work...)
- Implement training programs for production staff.
- Improve purchases to make material available when needed.
- Correct bills of material and/or routing.
- Prepare Root cause analysis, Flow Charts, or Value Stream Mapping.
- Implement statistical process controls.
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