Shop Floor Data Capture gives companies the most accurate data possible for measuring productivity across all workers, as well as productivity of individual workers. As well as knowing what’s getting done, and by whom, smart companies can use real-time data from their shop floors to create targeted training and development programs for increased worker productivity and flexibility.
Identifying Key Points for Improvement
Without an accurate data capture system, management may only have a fuzzy sense of where the slowest parts of manufacturing happen. With a good data capture system on the shop floor, any issues with productivity quickly become clear, which enables management to take direct action; for example, if the data captured by the system shows that all new employees tend to take the longest period of time to come up to speed on one particular task, or in using one work station, that’s a clear bottleneck to focus on for overall performance improvement. Maybe more training, or a new training program, would help employees gain proficiency faster. Perhaps a mentoring system which pairs a new employee with an experienced one to learn that task would be beneficial, enabling experienced workers to demonstrate any “tips and tricks” which speed up the process.
Individual Evaluation and Improvement
As well as making improvements in overall productivity, a good data capture system is beneficial for evaluating and training individual employees. Individual worker data can be used by managers during performance reviews, to acknowledge where workers excel and find the places where they most need improvement. Using this kind of data can help managers train and mentor workers to reach their best personal levels of achievement.
Good training is necessary for good productivity. Using real time shop floor data to enable targeted training can help managers design and refine the most effective training systems to get workers up to speed fast and working at their best.
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