improve productivity

  • Increasing Productivity Doesn’t Always Mean Working Harder

    • June 14, 2023
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Innovation, Management, Manufacturing, Productivity
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    Black and white photo of a guy wearing a construction hat, sitting on a pile of rocks, in front of an old excavator. Sometimes increasing productivity means finding someone smarter than you to figure things out.

    As much as I hate to say it, the key to increased productivity really is “work smarter, not harder.” But it’s more than just finding little tricks and hacks that help people do their job much faster, or having people start working a little faster than they were before. If you really want to increase

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  • My Four Non-Negotiables: #3 – Productivity

    • March 25, 2020
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Measurement, Productivity
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    Productivity can only be improved if you measure everything first.

    Over the years, I have developed a management philosophy I call the Four Non-Negotiables. For the next couple weeks, I’ll share what each of them are and what they mean. This week is about Non-Negotiable #3, Productivity As you manage your organization’s Safety, and the Housekeeping is well in hand, you want to look at

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  • Innovative Companies Need to Devote Resources toward Smart Manufacturing Technology

    • December 18, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Digital Transformation, Manufacturing
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    Smart manufacturing technology can reduce labor costs and increase productivity and profits.

    With today’s smart manufacturing technology, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, sophisticated measurement technology, and better/deeper analytics, companies that aren’t taking advantage of these advances are almost certainly doomed to fail. A recent article on SupplyChainBrain.com wondered whether smart factories could revive the productivity of U.S. manufacturing. Short answer, yes. Long answer, very much so.

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  • Improving Productivity Reduces a Factory’s HR, Onboarding Costs

    • August 14, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Productivity
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    Improving productivity on your factory floor can also reduce HR and onboarding costs.

    Improving productivity throughout your operation, especially on the manufacturing floor, can have an amazing ripple effect throughout your entire organization. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how we were able to improve productivity by measuring our results on the floor and in our accounts receivable department. We were able to save a lot of

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  • Improve Productivity in the Back Office

    • August 7, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Digital Transformation, Measurement
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    New technologically-advanced machines can help you improve productivity in your factory.

    When you embrace measurement as a way to improve productivity of your manufacturing processes, you’ll find all sorts of problems you never knew existed. When we started measuring everything at Robroy, we not only found different problems and issues in different facets of our manufacturing facilities, we discovered that there was a 16 percent rejection

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