ANSWER: One of our customers was clearly able to articulate how operator engagement and LED display boards were able to help their organization achieve record productivity levels. The customer was a discreet job shop: with assembly cells, fabrication cells, and welding cells. They had been working on self directed high performance teams in attempt to balance the throughput to achieve production shift targets. They also incented the employees for production that exceeded the targets of the overall shift, rather than just the individual cells. The difficulty was they were spending a large amount of supervisory and management effort trying to balance the workload and move resources around from one cell to the other to achieve the production targets.

When Shoplogix was implemented the LED display boards were clearly able to articulate, as each of the work centres throughput was displayed on the boards. Individuals were able to see if an area was falling behind and required some assistance and were able to redeploy themselves to achieve the targets of that cell and of course maximize the output of the entire shift. They proceeded to set record production throughput levels upon the first shift after implementing Shoplogix.

Michael Dedrick

Michael Dedrick is the Marketing Campaign Specialist at Shoplogix Inc.
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