SHOPFLOOR MANAGEMENT
Collaborative working
Objectives
- Achieve long-term goals by gradually removing problems from
processes - Focus energy on common goals
- Manage the organisation according to jointly defined standards
- Management’s close involvement in production problem fixing
Description
4 principles of Shop Floor Management:
- 1VIZUALISE - Visualise process status
- 2GO TO WORKPLACE - Make decisions based on facts. Learn the real process status. Show that we are interested in problems in production
- 3SOLVE PROBLEMS - Enable people responsible for the process to solve the problem. Form multi-professional teams. Remove obstacles that prevent people from solving the problem effectively
- 4DEVELOP PEOPLE - Learn people to see problems and solve them effectively