Eliminating non value adding activities FICCI CE Eliminating
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Eliminating non value adding activities
FICCI CE Eliminating non value adding activities An important method of doing continuous improvement is to eliminate Waste and non value adding activities from the organization. Mismanagement of time constitutes one of the most important reasons of failure of improvement initiatives in any organization.
FICCI CE Eliminating non value adding activities ã The key to continuous improvement is not about driving people and machines faster, but about the elimination of waste. ã Waste is often confused with materials ruined or discarded or time which could obviously have been better spent. However this view is only partial. ã Waste is any operation which does not add value.
FICCI CE Sources of unproductive Time. ã Waiting time. ã Set - up times. ã Time spent on over production. ã Avoidable Transportation. ã Ineffective communication. ã Inopportune timing of activity.
FICCI CE Time spent on non value adding activities The organization must therefore eliminate non value adding activities from the system and the time saved from these activities must be utilized in improvement activities. A typical matrix of how the organization spends time is given on the next slide.
Matrix of organizational activities Improvement activities Positive activities Time spent: 10% Time spent : 60% Negative activities Ineffective activities Time spent: 10% Time spent: 20%
Matrix of organizational activities Improvement activities • Commitment to quality • • • Customer driven approach Willingness to improve Effective problem solving Improvement targets Information sharing Company wide approach Positive activities Dealing effectively with: - • Customer queries • • Rush orders Surge of demand Staffing shortages Resource shortages Negative activities Ineffective activities • Avoiding quality problems • Chasing information • • Interdepartmental rivalry Secrecy Putting self needs before team needs Defensiveness • • • Misdirected queries Unproductive meetings Seeking authority to act Bureaucracy Ineffective procedures
FICCI CE Time spent on non value adding activities Thus if an organization is able to eliminate its ineffective and negative activities from the matrix, it is able to save 30% time which can straight away be utilized in its improvement activities as depicted on the next slide.
Matrix of organizational activities Improvement activities Positive activities Time spent: 40% Time spent : 60% Negative activities Time spent: nil Ineffective activities Time spent: nil
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