When it comes time to allocate a plant's continuous improvement budget, the decisions are often based on data that is slow and inaccurate. This leads to a process that relies quite heavily on speculating where problems actually are, resulting in improvement based on those assumptions.
The problem lies in that the plant managers do not have the right visibility onto their plant floor, instead it is just a 'black box' of production. The information Plant Managers use to make their assumptions have been passed between numerous hands before finally reaching them. This results in data that is now outdated as well as inaccurate, due to the corners cut here and the time wasted there.
Has anyone noticed or had to handle similar problems?
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The problem lies in that the plant managers do not have the right visibility onto their plant floor, instead it is just a 'black box' of production. The information Plant Managers use to make their assumptions have been passed between numerous hands before finally reaching them. This results in data that is now outdated as well as inaccurate, due to the corners cut here and the time wasted there.
Has anyone noticed or had to handle similar problems?
For a full summary of our thoughts on this, click here.