Being at the helm of a company implies a high level of responsibility and decision-making: Reviewing budget requests from the areas, meeting the objectives of the board of directors, permanently ensuring the growth of the company and supervising lines of innovation and new products to stay relevant in the market.
Fortunately, there are two tasks that are easily achievable by having an automatic floor control system: Quick (managerial) supervision of the plant's production status and the growth of production capacity. In this article we will talk about these two topics, from a managerial point of view and how they greatly lighten the load.
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1. Plant Production Supervision
Having the time to review the condition of the entire factory in detail would be ideal, but realistically, it is almost impossible. That is why we appoint area managers who provide us with consolidated information, with detected problems (opportunities for improvement) and strategies to solve them.
The help provided by an automatic capture system that connects to an ERP is immense: On the one hand, general managers will be able to receive management reports with the most important indicators in real time. These reports can be generated by different collaborators with the indicated credentials, mitigating dependence on a single person for information generation. In addition, as the indicators are calculated automatically, possible human errors that would hide what is happening in the factory are avoided.
On the other hand, it helps area managers to find the problems that generate losses in production with a level of precision that leaves no room for confusion, allowing them to present them more easily in management meetings. In this way, improvement plans Will generate greater results.
2. Production Gain
Automatic capture systems, such as PROALNET's GESPLINE, guarantee an increase in production by allowing a reliable and accurate analysis of the elements to be improved. This gain is approximately 15% per year, and can be seen in both production capacity and savings. This growth is gradual and sustained, generating results from the first month of implementation.
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Example 1: A plant that produces $40 billion a year would have a $6 billion increase in production capacity, a figure that will surprise the board of directors and skyrocket market penetration rates, especially when comparing this profit to the low cost of implementing software of this type.
Example 2: A problem detected from the first day of analysis in the same plant, in which it is found that there are micro-stops (less than 3 minutes) that cause a 1% loss in the availability of a production line. If this problem is of logistical origin, it can be solved by organizing the raw material in another way. This improvement would generate a profit of more than 1 million pesos in daily production ($400 million a year) with a very simple solution that does not require investment.
These two points demonstrate that while tools like GESPLINE are designed to be used by plant and maintenance managers, they are valuable for general managers with plans to turn their factory into a world-class company.
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