Manufacturing Improvement : What Should Company Do During Recession Period

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Everywhere you go, everybody will talking with the same topic; recession. Is that too bad compare with 1998? Some say yes, some say no. We can compare by numbers of retrenchment of worker, or number of company close and run away, or we could compare with how many losses declared by the main market player.


If we compare with number of worker, i can says that the impact still cannot be seen clearlly. We have to wait until at the top of the 'tragedy'. When? wait until US have no money to bare their oversea base Navy salaries. I can say that the 'tragedy' just kick off. Be petian.


Lets go into the topic. What should we do if this impact knock our manufacturing door? In any situation, the is good and bad. So lets we analaysis from the good view. It is very important to keep as much as you can your yearly profit. Dont say that we forget to keep some amount. We have bad tracking record. Almost every 10 years, the point become at the cordinate 0,0. - one circle.


Training / Re-training ponentional staff - Identify who is your petentional staff. Send them for training. Let them mastering their current area. If posibble, train them to others area too. For example, if you have Quality Enginner wich is still not certified, send them to be Certified Quality Engineer.


House Keeping / 5's - Keep your manufacturing clean. Dont let even single dust stick in to your machine. If possible, paint the old machine. Let its look new.


Maintenance - If during peak season / year (last and past year) you have no time to make maintenance of machine, this is the right time to do it. Change any spare part, put grease, check the lubricant oil etc.

Select new Sigma project - This is the best time to identify and select the six sigma project to kick off. You might know what is the critical problem that may highly cost saving during your peak season. So, now you have to define, measure, analysis and improve. Once the economy going better in future, you just need to control it.

Hiring suitable personnel - There is a lot of retrenchment everywhere. Some of them have better knowledge, experience as well as attitude. If you thing that you will have good customer new project, you can get correct personnel under the cost.

That is some of the thing may you can do during this season.

Note : Effected company is company that may have new pending order, temporary freez order from customer and manufacturing company that monthly and yearly sales only depend less than 10% with US base company.
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