Marking of the production or storage hall is a standard that almost all companies use. This marking is primarily to increase employee safety, by marking roads, dangerous items or reminding about procedures. However, if we approach the issue more comprehensively, we can get much more benefits than increasing safety. Properly designed and selected marking is a way to increase the efficiency, liquidity of processes and finally, to generate savings.

Wrestling management - marking of optimal and minimum states

The key to improving production processes is the appropriate marking of optimal and minimal storage. Some enterprises decide on digital inventory systems, but such solutions can be supported and even replaced by simple marking treatments. Possible solutions in this area include:

• Stickers indicating a height, which should not be exceeded by stacked loads.
• Stickers indicating the last palette place, which should be taken by a load of a given type.

These simple accessories, used in the correct way, allow you to avoid waste by collecting too many stocks.

Another problem, also relatively simple to solve, are deficiencies of stocks. In this case, they work:

• Stickers that allow you to mark the pallets, after which you need to supplement the supplies so as not to go below the minimum states.
• a table containing a table with a list of necessary raw materials, along with magnets illustrating storage.

Eliminating defects - picture position instructions

Effective management of the production process requires the development of procedures that will minimize the number of defective products and reduce the risk of errors. This is a particularly important issue when we work in a multilingual environment. Complicated, multi -page instructions are difficult to assimilate for every employee, and for foreigners can simply be incomprehensible.

 

Picture position instructions, describing step by step, are a great solution, which should be performed by the employee. Created on the model of instructions known from IKEA products, they are legible, easy to understand and remember. Thanks to this, they reduce the risk of a mistake by foreign -language employees or those who lack experience. 

Another important element in the standardization of production processes are the product correctness templates - the ability to apply, try on a product or semi -finished product to the pattern allows you to immediately, without unnecessary delay and risk of a final error, eliminate a faulty assortment from the production cycle.

Time saving - shadow boards and labels of storage spaces

Minor neglect translate into noticeable losses. Sometimes we do not notice that even the smallest waste of employee time has serious consequences for the entire plant. Example? Losses of time to look for semi -finished products and tools. They may seem small and insignificant. If an employee devotes to looking for tools for 5 minutes during an eight -hour change, it may seem a little significant loss. But if we multiply it for one hundred employees in the plant, it turns out that we are talking about a total loss of 250 hours - that is over a half -time. After multiplying by the minimum rate, it turns out that each such 5 minutes can cost us over PLN 5,000. What if there are two hundred employees? If they work for two shifts? If they lose not 5, but 15 minutes? The losses begin to go in tens of thousands of zlotys a month.

How to prevent it? For example, through positions of shadow boards. Thanks to this solution, the employee knows perfectly where to put the tools so that they are always at hand. If we add to this label indicating the place of location of semi -finished products and picture instructions, then we create the perfect workplace - those that save the time of linear employees, as well as brigadists who have to help less often.

The simplest solutions are the most effective

Working with clients who are looking for comprehensive visual management solutions, we start working with an audit. It takes into account the specifics of a given space, the nature of work or internal procedures in force in the company. The audit also allows you to identify key problems, which, although sometimes it seems trivial, in practice affect the company's activities and results.

For example, one of our clients has a situation several times in which, as a result of misunderstanding, trucks left before the loading. The solution we proposed was simple and above all ... effective. We placed a picture instructions in a visible place, ordering the driver ... put the keys to a specially prepared basket. The keys were issued only after the loading end was confirmed. As a result, the losses related to premature departures were completely eliminated. 

This is characterized by a good visual management system - simple and legible tips that affect key processes and improving the entire production process.