Key 8 of the 20 Keys System for operations excellence, Coupled Manufacturing/Production, is about a strategy and methods to link processes in order to ensure: a smooth, fast process, product and information flow, with low inventory levels, and effective communication between the different up- and downstream processes/f
It is a myth that managers are in the best position to come up with innovations and ideas for operations improvement in organisations. Because they’re the ones actually doing the day-to-day work, employees are in the best position to come up with ideas for operations improvement. They know first-hand what’s working and
Someone once said to me that the only way to improve a country’s productivity is to do it factory by factory, mine by mine, organisation by organisation. For the individual organisation this is also true, operations excellence is done process by process, department by department. At Astral Foods, the Agricultural Divis