Setting High Standards

Impact on the Organization

What is more important? Quality or meeting production goals? Can there ever be a balance between them? Not only can there be, but there should be. For a company to maintain a competitive edge, it must set and meet production goals, while maintaining product quality. Giving employees the tools to help set production goals, and empowering them so that they feel a part of a company’s goals is a key element to sustaining an organization’s standards, and then exceeding them. An imbalance weighted too much to either quality, which sacrifices production goals, or to meeting production goals at all costs, can negatively influence an organization’s bottom line.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the process for setting production goals.
• Determine how you affect meeting both production and quality goals.
• Develop suggestions for improving the manufacturing process, or productivity/output of your line/product in order to meet customer needs.

Program Description

During this module participants are shown why production goals are important, how they relate to quality, how they relate to staying competitive and how each participant plays a role in keeping those goals. Participants discuss factors that affect production goals, such as materials or overhead, and how production goals play a part in day-to-day operations. Participants also have the opportunity to look at what makes them want to be more involved in meeting production goals. The paradigm of quality versus production goals is introduced, as is the concept of tracking production goals to evaluate the results of production decisions. Finally, participants look at a production problem at their location and come up with potential solutions.

Time Investment

Typically 4 hours.

Customization

This program can be customized to include your organization’s procedures, policies, cases, examples and terminology. Kindly inquire about these consulting services.

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