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April 2021 #13261 Page #39
Where is Your Focus on Manufacturing?
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By Glenn Traylor
uality, Productivity, and Speed are intertwined and impact each other. Most managers create this Venn diagram in their mind. We often hear: “First we need to work on efficiency before we can focus on quality.” “We can’t afford to take the time to do it that way.” “We have got to get these trusses out and delivered regardless.” “Those rules are just a guideline, right?” “We are focused on reducing cost!”
Really what this graphic is trying to justify is the mindset that high-quality products delivered quickly to their customers will always be at a higher price and products delivered quickly and at an affordable price will be low-quality. If this is your mindset, you are reading in the right place.
Rethink Your Mindset Instead of that limiting diagram, let’s think about quality, price, and speed from a different perspective. For the sake of this discussion, let’s include Safety with it, and let’s broaden the idea of Speed to consider Productivity and Service. Now, ask this question: “Should there be a trade-off between the speed of delivery and quality or price?” The answer is: “No.” Maintaining quality and focusing on Value should be your keep objective. Improving quality starts with implementation of the ANSI/TPI 1 standard—and, with that process, you will improve proficiency and speed. Controlling wasted efforts and rework of product will reduce your costs too. Identifying and correcting poor workmanship will improve everyone’s efforts and will improve stream. Accepting poor quality, inadequate safety, or low productivity creates an atmosphere of tolerance. This will impact your workers with great habits too. They will eventually follow the poor achievers or will leave because they will become unfulfilled. High standards achieve high results. A focus on Value will shift everyone’s perspective to gauge their efforts to improve Value. So, let’s look at each element. PHONE: 800-289-5627
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