Focused Improvement.
To keep a company's results perpetually trending upwards, two key abilities are needed. The ability to sustain, and the ability to improve.
As one of the first key pillars of the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) philosophy, Focused Improvement, often referred to as continuous improvement or kaizen in lean speech, requires a business to first pick the right problems to be tackled, and then to make sure that they are actually solved before moving on to the next.
The pillar follows a structured set of steps aligned to the Plan, Do, Check, Act (pdca) cycle, which can be implemented for improvement activities of any size or complexity in any organization, but is especially important in auto plastic manufacturing such as that provided by market-leaders ADIS Tachov s.r.o.
By building an understanding and analysis of the different issue types affecting an organization the pillar operates at a strategic level and lays out a repeatable, intuitive structure that can be used time and again to ensure business objectives are met.
The focused improvement pillar also develops the capabilities of teams to be self-sufficient in applying appropriate problem-solving approaches. This both ensures that the team has the skills and the motivation needed to eliminate loss from their processes, not only for projects set out by management, but also for normal everyday issues they encounter in their workflow.
As well as improving efficiency, reducing defects and improving safety performance due to eliminating losses, it further ensures that the approach taken is consistent and repeatable to assure sustainability. For companies producing millions of parts annually, such awareness and focus are paramount to success and are what has powered ADIS to be the stalwart of the industry it is today.
