January 2017 e-VIBES
January 2017 e-VIBES
Complexity and Ambiguity) World. I can see you rolling up the sleeves to reduce the waste while reading this article, but hold on. We first have to understand the sources of waste. This is going to be an eye-opener for all of us. There are 8 significant different types of waste as follows: This is something shocking and surprising too!!! As a pressman, I am sure the moment, word waste is pronounced we all think of the one and only newsprint waste whereas the above picture tells totally a different story. Waste reduction is a part of Operational Excellence and it is always a Journey of Continuous and Breakthrough Improvements. This Journey is not having just 1 or 2 Speed breakers but threatening 8. Nevertheless, we have to overcome these obstacles to prove to the business that we too add value.
How do we do that? It is all in our thought process and the thought process is HOW DO WE MAKE OUR LIFE EASIER AND SIMPLER? We want to eliminate waste and at the same time, working upon on all 8 types of waste is never going to be easier. You would have come across many puzzle games, where you should solve one main puzzle and all the subsequent puzzles are automatically solved. Do you see something like that here? I see it. There is one waste out of the 8 categories which you can eliminate
100 % and if you are able to achieve that, other wastes are going to be a piece of cake. Before reading further, just take a look at the picture once again and try to find what it is. Have you fished it out? Yes, you are right. It is the NON-UTILISED HUMAN TALENT. It is the PEOPLE who make the big difference in any process and they are the backbones of any improvement. One of the Jack Welch’ s famous quotes says that any aspiring company should give challenging jobs to its people. All the leaders have to take a relook at their Manpower Utilisation and do a mapping of the team members’ skills with their expertise on Waste Identification and Elimination. A leader’ s Job is to put the right person with the right skill on the right job at the right time. If this is followed in true spirit, it is beyond doubt that waste will soon become history.
Mr. S. Sekar is the DGM- Production of Times of India Press, Chennai. He and his team are instrumental for the entry of TOI Chennai press, as a member of the most coveted and prestigious International color Quality Club. He is the most sought after speaker in all the seminars related to printing.( Sekar. Subramani @ timesgroup. com)
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