I suggest you decide what metric(s) you wish to use, and what purpose they are for and clearly define the boundaries of what you are measuring.
If you are trying to measure the efficiency of a machine. There are several measures used. One is utilisation, others just occupacity, manufacturing...
If you need British / EU standards they may be availabile for Purchase on the BSI / ISO website (search for British Standards Institute)
or I am aware of a company that sells this kind of knowledge through software systems...www.eutech.com
I am researching difference reward and recognition practises for manufacturing based improvement teams,
typically shop floor kaizen teams.....
Does anyone have any examples of what their companies does and the results from it, I am looking for particularly innovative ideas aswell as the usual...
Norman,<br><br>I cant help you directly with a black box manufacturing process for household appliances.....<br><br>but if you look in the book 'Lean Thinking' by Jones and Womack, I think I remember seeing a similar process for a Coca Cola can, which may help you to draw...
At my company, we measure all the off standard times, and compare the actual times with the standard and ask all the operators to account for differences, we can then use the 'losses' to draw up paretos and prioritise losses so that corrective actions that will hopefully eliminate the...
I may have followed the thread wrongly, but maybe the solution may not be to either measure the standard time or the volume, but to compare the production rate with a standard proven rate....<br>you may find then that the products that look very similar when based on time standards...
