Project of the Month
"Reduce Waste Successfully"
Identify and sustainably avoid unproductive times.
Time Slices
KEY FIGURES
- Reduced unproductive time from ~30% to 18%.
CURRENT SITUATION
- Significant disparity between attendance time and productive time on cost centers and work orders.
- Approximately 30% of time was spent on auxiliary tasks.
- Significant amount of time was wasted searching, transporting, restacking, inquiring, etc.
APPROACH
- Identify unproductive time through a time distribution study across all production areas.
- Identification of areas with high levels of unproductive time.
- Targeted search for waste based on the 7 types of waste - "waste walk" in teams of two.
- Evaluate and quantify identified waste.
- Develop ideas and actions to eliminate waste.
- Evaluate measures and determine potential savings.
- Action plan to implement the defined measures.
CUSTOMERS BENEFITS
- Significant reduction in unproductive time.
- Introduction of regular "waste walks" as part of the continuous improvement process (KVP).
- Sensitization of employees to recognize unproductive processes and workflows in their own environment
- Fast implementation of measures.
- Verification of initiated measures through quarterly area-specific time distribution studies.
- Permanent reduction of non-value added activities.