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What Tracking 1-2-3 Does : |
How does it affect me? |
Models your manufacturing system
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- You can only improve manufacturing if you first have a way of understanding the
"big picture" of your manufacturing environment
- Is designed to meet your manufacturing needs
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Maintains optimal and consistent manufacturing processes |
- Customers are less likely to purchase products of low specification
- Processes that run outside of optimal specifications often cost manufacturers time
and money
- Productivity can be severely reduced when production issues arise from erratic and
out of control processes (e.g. downtime)
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Flattens the learning curve for new operators |
- Training operators for new systems and processes is both time consuming and expensive
- Even the best training system cannot possibly prepare an operator for all the different
ways in which each process in your system can go out of control
- Manufacturers are under increasing time constraints that prevent them from spending
the adaquet time required to fully prepare a new operator for a process
- Training operators who will work at the system for only a couple of months is especially
wasteful, as much of the time,energy and costs associated with preparing a operator
for a new system will vanish along with the operator
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