Investing in the most suitable equipment and technology can effectively improve productivity. New equipment and technology are one of the most effective ways to improve productivity. A large American insurance company invests 10%- 15% to improve its information technology, which can increase the productivity by 5% every year.
For example, if the flexible packaging printing factory adopts the shaftless gravure press of Zhongshan Songde, the production speed can be increased to 350 m/min, 75% faster than the general gravure press, and the productivity is significantly improved.
Eliminate bottlenecks
The production system is a whole, and the overall productivity is often determined by the bottleneck productivity. Improving any non-bottleneck productivity cannot improve the overall productivity of the system, but improving bottleneck productivity can improve the overall productivity. Only when the output rate of the bottleneck is equal to the sum of all the input output rates, the system is the most effective.
3. Quality management
The key to quality control is to implement source quality control, which requires that the work must be done well at one time, and if there is an error, the production of this process should be stopped immediately. Front-line employees are not only producers, but also quality supervisors. Because employees only pay attention to this part, it is easy to find quality problems, which is conducive to the improvement of the quantity.
When printing and packaging enterprises produce packaging boxes, if the quality is not up to standard when printing, the front-line staff did not take out the unqualified printed pages in time, because the printed pages are difficult to check, they may not be detected. After delivery, it was detected when customers used it, which affected the relationship between enterprises and customers and caused great economic losses.
4.JIT production
JIT (just-in-time) production is a combination of a series of production activities, and its purpose is to realize mass production of raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products while keeping the inventory at the lowest level. In this process, the parts arrive at the next process on time, and are processed quickly in this process, and then transferred to the next process.
The idea of JIT production is: only produce when necessary, and never overproduce. Anything that exceeds the minimum demand is a waste.
5. Design employees' jobs
Because the front-line work is relatively monotonous, employees' enthusiasm for production is generally not high, especially the assembly line work. Even if the salary is high, there is no guarantee of high productivity. We can improve employees' production enthusiasm and productivity by expanding work, deepening work, rotating work and team production.
6. Improve working methods
Improve productivity by improving the productivity of an operation or a group of operations, reducing costs and improving quality. Employees have a set of habitual action patterns when using machines, tools, materials and working methods, which directly affect productivity.
We must reanalyze all employees' behaviors, delete unnecessary behaviors and correct wrong behaviors. When necessary, adopt a new and more efficient action mode to greatly improve production efficiency.
7. Staff training
Strengthen employee training, change employees' wrong understanding, reduce the probability of making mistakes, improve employees' knowledge level and technical ability, and effectively improve productivity. The cost of employee training is relatively low, but it can increase the productivity by about 6% every year.
8. Motivate employees
Enterprises can use team-oriented incentive compensation mechanism to effectively improve productivity. This mechanism emphasizes teamwork, and rewards individuals in the team according to their contribution to the team goals through careful evaluation. Managers must clearly encourage the improvement of productivity and encourage employees who make contributions, including economic incentives and non-economic incentives.
9. Manage the daily work of employees
Enterprises must manage daily production, arrange production reasonably, reduce time waste, improve the effective utilization of working hours, reduce equipment failure time, reduce idle assets, and maximize the efficiency of employees and capital.
10. Corporate culture
Advocate the concept of improving productivity in corporate culture, so that all employees can form a strong awareness of improving productivity and work together to form a big environment for improving productivity.
Improving productivity is of great significance to printing and packaging enterprises with declining profits. Whoever has a low price of similar products will have a competitive advantage and win the order. In price competition, productivity is the foundation. It can be said that whoever improves the productivity will have the ultimate advantage in the price competition.