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Tracking process flow to improve production speed
But before you can begin to understand how tracking your process flow can improve your production speed you are first going to need to understand what process flow is, so let's take a moment to discuss process flow. In manufacturing process flow is the steps of a procedure that are used in making, delivering, or accomplishing a product or service. And process flow is also how the steps impact the layout of your company and your decisions about technology, not to mention how your company works together. When it comes to building a strong company that is going to have a competitive edge you need to realize that process flow is going to be a very strong aspect. Something else that you need to know about process flow is that when applying the concept of process flow a given procedure can be classified as either a job shop or a flow shop. Basically a flow shop is not a flexible procedure and uses specialized resources, while a job shop is very flexible and uses general resources.
Now that you have a basic understanding of what process flow is we can go on to discuss how tracking your process flow can help you improve your production speed. The reason that this works is that when you start to look at all of the individual departments of your company and how they work together to get the job done you might notice that one company is slacking off. And because this department is slacking off the next department down the line in the manufacturing process can't do their job correctly. The bad news is that in manufacturing when one department is behind it all just snowballs down the line until every department is affected, which in turn leads to decreased production speed. And if you have decreased production speeds nobody is happy, including employees and customers and the blame is getting passed along from one person to the next. By tracking your process flows you are going to be able to see where things are going wrong and in which department they are going wrong in. Once you know where it is going wrong you will be able to direct your attention to that department to find out why things are going wrong and what can be done to fix the problem so that you can increase your production speed. The best way to go about tracking your process flows is to make a list of all the steps that need to be taken in order to make the product. Then you are going to want to go through those steps and write down how long it should take each department to complete each step. Once you have completed this list you are going to want to go and watch the departments and take notes about what is actually done and how long it really takes and anything else that is of importance. Once you have made your notes you are ready to make improvements to your production speeds.
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