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News Release from: Harford Control | Subject: Factory key-performance-indicators
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 November 2004
How to make 'continuous improvement'
continuous
Applying a system that communicates everything a manager needs to know, helps to run the factory more efficiently, with improved quality and using fewer people is the goal.
Factory key-performance-indicators (KPIs) such as overall-equipment-effectiveness (OEE) and statistical-process-control (SPC) are relevant to all factories, but so often these improvement initiatives make little progress So what can we learn from these stark facts? Well Harford could take on an equal responsibility with your factory team, to ensure these improvement initiatives hit their targets
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Real-time performance for the current shift/day
Harford Control's Production Information Management System gives any manager with a PC on the factory network graphical screens to present real-time performance measures for the current shift/day
Do your other suppliers guarantee project success? Applying proven techniques requires experience and the labour resource available to make it happen.
Today's lean factories do not have such a resource and frankly, consultancy is rarely the solution.
How can you ensure your continuous-improvement program does exactly what it says on the front cover, and stays continuous.
Talking to Harford can seriously improve factory health.
Applying a system that communicates everything a manager needs to know, to run the factory more efficiently, with improved quality, using less people is the goal.
If you can trust the shop-floor-data, which makes up the KPI report, that highlights where resource can most profitably be focussed, your profits cannot help but improve dramatically.
So pick up the telephone now and organise a free factory site visit for us to assess the achievable level of savings?.
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