The importance of shop floor communication Whether it’s exchanging job details, updating customers on job progress or teaching a graduate how to complete a task, shop floor communication in the manufacturing industry is essential. If you want high productivity and minimal delays, it’s necessary you achieve effective communication throughout the workplace.
Due to the current circumstances with COVID-19 and the increase of remote working, communication is harder now, than ever before. With office staff likely to be working from home, shop floor staff should be aware of their upcoming jobs without any communication barriers.
Shop floor communication issues Paper-based systems are popular amongst SMEs and start-ups. These systems are incredibly efficient at first. However, as the organisation grows, these systems can become ineffective. As you hire more staff, win more work, buy more machines and have more jobs running each day, it’s more than likely that paperwork will become lost or you will struggle to stay on top of things.
And then there’s verbal communication. You’ll know how noisy the shop floor can be. When you’re discussing jobs it can be easy to misinterpret the message and take a wrong step resulting in scrap and rework as a result of difficulty hearing.
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