If you own or manage a manufacturing business, here are some tips to help your employees improve their productivity.
- If you’re not already using such strategies as Six Sigma and/or Lean Manufacturing, consider implementing them in your company.
- Take a look at your work flow. Look at your processes and technology and how your employees engage with them to see where improvement may be made.
- Watch your communication procedures, as well. Where in the pipeline does miscommunication tend to occur?
- Consider “stream mapping,” a method that analyzes and/or designs the flow of information and materials in your company. This way, your managers can make priorities and create new processes that can fix problems
- Document your processes either/or on paper or electronically.
Your company’s finances often are tied directly to how satisfied your customers are with your service and your product. Study the data regarding your customers’ satisfaction and your finances. Find where the two are lagging. For example, if you see that your customer satisfaction data is sinking below 50 percent satisfaction, consider surveying your customers to get their feedback regarding their problems with your product/service.
Study closely data such as how many times customers call for support, your monthly sales volume, how many products you make each month and how many of them are sold.
Don’t forget to measure how happy or satisfied your employees are by studying your employee “churn” each month: How many people leave and how many stay with you month in and month out. If they leave, why? Did they receive a promotion? More pay? Shorter commute? Were they just dissatisfied with your company?
If you do start putting process improvement changes into place, measure their results so that you can see if they are, indeed, improving your customers’ satisfaction, productivity, product quality, etc.
Partnering with a staffing service such as Arrow Staffing can go a long way to improving your hiring process for your Riverside or San Bernardino county company. Contact a recruiter today so that we may learn more about your facility’s staffing needs!