Operational Excellence
All manufacturing facilities want to secure high levels of operational excellence (OE) performance; the question is how do you achieve this with your existing organisation and sustain into the future?
OE Programs require ownership by the organisation to be successful: so can be custom designed to account for the company legacy, cultural, operating environment and most of all for the personnel working at the facility. However, in all cases there are a number of basic work processes when implemented effectively, will target systematically priority units (and their critical equipment) which will have the biggest influence on operational availability performance.
The application of work processes, facilitates changes to the ways of working, to achieve sustained improvements in OE performance. In each instance, a work process is deployed as a pilot, it is then implemented across the priority units and then embedded across the remaining units on as need basis. In this approach the efforts are targeting consistently incremental improvements and are not wasted on “non value add” activities. Tracking of improvement actions, from inception through to installation via defect elimination teams is an essential to performance manage the complete program.
Finally, the program needs to be fully supported by the leadership team, engaging at all levels of the organisation from the site manager to the front line. Hence transparency, clear communications and rewards need to be integrated and recognised on a regular basis.
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