How to Increase Your Organization’s Productivity Using Effective Work Methods and Standards

Detailed conference program

About the Conference

Get your work methods and standards established so that you can increase your plant’s productivity, boost velocity throughput, and slash labor and materials costs! Find out what a fair day’s work is in your operation and set time standards you need to meet delivery schedules by reducing cycle times!

How to Measure Your Work

Remember, you can’t manage what you don’t measure! This seminar will train you in the latest work sampling and time study methods using state-of-the-art technology and techniques. Far from ignoring the tried and true stopwatch techniques, you will learn these thoroughly; plus you will explore many more work methods and measurement techniques using videotaped case studies and hands-on team problem-solving exercises.

You will learn how to observe, record and calculate average actual elemental times, make judgments of your operator’s performance (pace) rating, determine normal elemental times, and calculate the standard time – all with proper allowances for personal needs, fatigue and unavoidable delays. You will know how to deal with every type of atypical event you might experience during a time study such as observing outlier (abnormal) times and foreign elements.

By setting a standard on an improved method based on a “fair day’s work” – not too loose or tight – your company will be able to reduce labor costs, slash overtime, and meet on-time delivery schedules!

Powerful Handheld PC Demonstration and Case Studies

C-FOUR has been a leading developer of computerized work measurement techniques, programs and systems for 20 years. Using our tested and proven Computer-Aided Work Sampling system, you will see how the HP 620 LX “shirt pocket” computer collects data, manages files, and processes time study data. You will examine case studies aimed at helping you improve the productivity and ergonomics of your operation. You will work on team problems using the flow process chart, right- and left-hand charts, and man-machine charts. Plus, you will work with your colleagues on an insightful “Toy Coke Case Assembly” team problem, role-playing as a consulting group working with a job shop!

Performance Rating Benchmarks and Practice on Real Industrial Operations

You will establish a solid base for your performance rating judgments by observing/rating numerous examples of
       - Walking (using video and real time demos)
       - Card Dealing (using video and real time demos)
       - Pinboard Filling (real time based on synthetic rating)
Then you will rate numerous actual industrial operation performances. You will rate the new “Incentive Assembly Operations” video unique for its use of Morrow’s synthetic rating bases for the true ratings!

Hands-on Watch Reading Practice with Videos of Real Operations

You will have the opportunity to practice and hone the art of time study data recording using three videos specially designed to improve your motor-perceptual skills. These cases capture real factory production scenes: a tennis ball felting operation on an assembly line; a drill chuck assembly operation; and a router assembly operation. A powerful feature of this practice is that you will evaluate your own time recording accuracy with an overlay grading mask with the exact times.

Award Winning Videos Use Actual Case Histories

You will review two videos for practical insights:
       1. Productivity and the Problem-Solving Process, and
       2. Activity (Work) Sampling
These videos have won first place awards in the Industrial Management Society’s film competition! In the problem-solving video you will see how a hospital simplified its salary change authorization process using classic techniques, which define productivity and its components. You will use the videos as a tool to learn how to list inputs and outputs. Using several case studies, the second video will show you how to design a work sampling study, the under-lying statistical methods, and how to interpret the results.

You Will...

Master proven traditional and state-of-the-art time study procedures

Develop sound labor standards that reduce your costs

Eliminate non-value added activities using powerful indirect work measurements

Discover cutting-edge work sampling and computer integrated time study techniques

Practice the latest time and work-study techniques in teamwork exercises, role-plays, and case studies

Who Should Attend

New industrial engineering practitioners

Manufacturing supervisors, group leaders, and department managers

Engineers without formal industrial engineering education: mechanical, manufacturing, process & production

Experienced industrial engineers or I.E. technicians who want an update on current time measurement and work sampling techniques

Personnel & human resources department staff/trainers

Labor representatives and union stewards who need to be able to conduct parallel or concurrent time studies

Training and development department staff/trainers

Anybody trying to reduce costs or increase productivity