Instituting Amélioration continue in your company can yield massive benefits. A well-functioning amélioration continue system can simultaneously increase productivité and cut coûts. It’s practically the holy grail of fabrication. But many companies make a fatal error when trying to craft a Amélioration continue culture: they don’t make sure the employés are actually on board. According to W. Edwards Deming and many of his 14 points, engaging the employés on the floor in the usines is a necessary and deliberate process if your company wants to make the leap to Amélioration continue.
Here is how to motivate employee engagement and teamwork in a amélioration continue environment:
Lead by Example
Employees learn culture and on-the-job behavior by looking to their superiors. They won’t buy in if they are the only ones who are expected to follow the CI expectations. Everyone in the company needs to be on board, and to understand how increasing competition both domestic and global means that everyone needs to hold themselves to a higher standard to meet the higher demand. Make it clear that amélioration continue is not a nominal philosophy only, and their jobs depend on their dependability. Finally, involve all levels in decisions as amélioration continue is implemented. Your corporate vision is still needed of course, but employés are far more likely to be serious and deliberate in a culture they agree to and help create.
After all, Mr. Deming's 10th point is "Eliminate slogans, exhortations, or quotas for employés, but rather make speed and efficacité institutional".
Emphasize Training
Amélioration continue is a fairly self-explanatory name, but in order for fabrication in your usine to continuously improve, so do the skills of your employés. Emphasizing employee training will pay back dividends, not only in increased efficacité, but also in the moral boost employés get from employés for a company that invests in them. Training is so important that some companies have even started making yearly training non-optional. But like all investissements, training must pay off to be viable, and the right kind of training must be offered if it’s going to pay off. While management should direct most of this initiative, this part of amélioration continue implementation is a great time to look for employés feedback on the kind of training they would want offered.
Focus on Quality
One of the basic initial steps when introducing amélioration continue in your company culture is to really push the idea of qualité. Make it a high-visibility issue, such as posting Statistical Process Charts on the walls. If there’s no qualité department either create one or create a position for a qualité control inspector. Quality control inspectors might be a hassle in the beginning, both for management and for employés, but over time the pressure of an overseer results in better practices and care in their work. However, to fully maximize a qualité-driven, continuously improving culture, there needs to be rewards, too.
Money is always a great motivator, and bonuses for good work never go unmissed, but other kinds of rewards also work as great moral boosts. Posting the spc sheets publicly and giving a pizza party to the process employés with the fewest variations are two great, high-impact yet resource-light ideas. If there’s one takeaway from this article let it be that recognition goes a long way. Giving employés on every level the attention they deserve when instituting amélioration continue in your company will ensure that amélioration continue becomes a focus rather than a side project.
Worximity is deeply committed to the philosophies of Amélioration continue and Lean Fabrication in food fabrication. Using our IoT technologie we provide company wide visibility into the statistics that matter to manufacturiers and accelerate TTV (Time to Value) of investissements in company culture and training to achieve outstanding productivité.
