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Continuous Improvement: Page 4
Continuous Improvement
The Pillar of Enablement: Skills
To create the conditions for engagement, it’s important to support the opportunities to build and acquire the skills employees need to succeed. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews functional and interpersonal skills, and how learning acquiring new capabilities leads to a more engaged workforce.
August 11, 2016
Continuous Improvement
The Pillar of Enablement: Resources
Once people have skills, they need resources to use these capabilities to add value in the organization. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews resources – including tools, processes, technical support and more – that are crucial for an engaged workforce.
August 11, 2016
Continuous Improvement
Ensuring Your Employees are the Right Fit
Leaders should evaluate if their employees are in the right roles and have the right skill sets to provide value to the organization. The OpX Leadership Network’s Workforce Engagement framework outlines how to determine if an employee is a good fit for your organization.
August 11, 2016
Continuous Improvement
Effective Communication in Workforce Engagement
To establish connection, organizations should not only ensure their employees are the right fit, but they are also providing effective communication channels and pathways. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews the attributes of communication and how they lead to internal information flow, awareness and decision-making.
August 11, 2016
Continuous Improvement
The Benefits of Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) brings value to the processing and packaging industry, but it is often misinterpreted. When you look at OEE, it’s important to recognize all of its aspects and what they mean to stakeholders, including risk reductions, capacity and predictability, and process control. Because world-class OEE is 85% and you will never achieve 100%, Mark Hanley explains the importance of standardizing its definition and measurement, so OEE is better understood across the industry.
August 7, 2016
Continuous Improvement
User Guide to the OEE Starter Tool
The OEE Starter Tool provides a rough estimate of the “size of the prize” of a project’s potential savings. Mark Hanley reviews how this tool is easy to use and can be adopted at any plant.
August 7, 2016
Continuous Improvement
OEE Benefits Calculator Key Concepts & Instructions
The OEE Benefits Calculator helps you find opportunities for increased efficiency on the plant floor. Mark Hanley provides an overview of the calculator, and how you can effectively use it to determine direct labor wages and overtime, raw material ingredient and packaging yield, and reductions in unplanned stops.
August 7, 2016
Continuous Improvement
Set Target Performance with the OEE Benefits Calculator
Mark Hanley reviews how to use the OEE Benefits Calculator to set target performances. This data will evaluate the impact of direct labor, weekly line performance, improvements in the operation and speed of the lines, and if changes are needed to sanitation and planned maintenance.
August 7, 2016
Continuous Improvement
Evaluate Cost Proforma with the OEE Benefits Calculator
The OEE Benefits Calculator helps evaluate cost proforma through its detailed results (tab 4). Mark Hanley explains how to enter data into the Benefits Calculator to estimate labor scheduling. Included in the detail is the breakdown of hours, holidays and estimated daily downtime.
August 7, 2016
Continuous Improvement
OEE Benefits Calculator Summary Results
The OEE Benefits Calculator summary section (tabs 5a and 5b) outlines a breakdown of possible savings through baseline performance. Mark Hanley reviews how to analyze the data that shows the value of improvement in the future versus current state, as well as the predicted OEE increase.
August 7, 2016
Continuous Improvement
OpX Leadership Network: One year after the rebrand
How an updated brand is driving industry-wide adoption of operational best practices.
August 1, 2016
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