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The pace of a lot of the simulations was too much for me. So much that I started making mistakes and that was not cool. I was on the paperwork end and I was having to fill out two small sheets. Put one on the area that gets the parts together for the production area take the customers order thing to the "dock" area which is on the other side of the room. I have seconds to do this as we are being timed 14 minutes to get all the clocks built.
A problem with the first round is because of the time it took "engineering" to get the plans together so I can write the "work order" it delayed me a lot. So there is this one guy who came in with a hangover from being out partying last night who was put on "sales" and he starts hollering at everyone that he thinks that people who are for like for example me who had to wait for engineering to have things ready should just jump up and go help people like the department that ships the product from the production to the warehouse.
So I'm thinking first of all this guy needs to simmer down and not yell so loud that he can be heard on the other side of the building. Second of all, a person in my position doesn't have the training or equipment that that other guy has. So if a person like me would just on a whim try to go do that other persons job I could hurt myself and get in their way. Plus in the meantime my work is piling up.
The second simulation was pretty much the same but they made changes in other departments in the simulation that caused the paperwork to go up and I was hardly able to keep up with it.
The third simulation cut down on the paperwork because I got everything I needed from engineering. What I needed to so is organize it by time expected and then look to see if there is prefabbed faces needed for a given order and if not go to the next until there is some available for the previous order. Well things still got hectic because I was always having to check if there was product and spaces open to assemble the part that need to be customized and keep things in order as they are pouring in while trying to fulfill those orders in the time promised. I started losing track of some things and production could not make clocks fast enough.
The first simulation was the henry ford way of doing things and the last way is more of the lean way of doing things. While the last way made the bottom line go way up it is still not perfect on the worker end of the equation. But of course when you come down to it the bottom line is the only important thing to a company.
We did get a grey clock (which is the best of the 3 clocks we had to make) to take home with us for completing the course.
A problem with the first round is because of the time it took "engineering" to get the plans together so I can write the "work order" it delayed me a lot. So there is this one guy who came in with a hangover from being out partying last night who was put on "sales" and he starts hollering at everyone that he thinks that people who are for like for example me who had to wait for engineering to have things ready should just jump up and go help people like the department that ships the product from the production to the warehouse.
So I'm thinking first of all this guy needs to simmer down and not yell so loud that he can be heard on the other side of the building. Second of all, a person in my position doesn't have the training or equipment that that other guy has. So if a person like me would just on a whim try to go do that other persons job I could hurt myself and get in their way. Plus in the meantime my work is piling up.
The second simulation was pretty much the same but they made changes in other departments in the simulation that caused the paperwork to go up and I was hardly able to keep up with it.
The third simulation cut down on the paperwork because I got everything I needed from engineering. What I needed to so is organize it by time expected and then look to see if there is prefabbed faces needed for a given order and if not go to the next until there is some available for the previous order. Well things still got hectic because I was always having to check if there was product and spaces open to assemble the part that need to be customized and keep things in order as they are pouring in while trying to fulfill those orders in the time promised. I started losing track of some things and production could not make clocks fast enough.
The first simulation was the henry ford way of doing things and the last way is more of the lean way of doing things. While the last way made the bottom line go way up it is still not perfect on the worker end of the equation. But of course when you come down to it the bottom line is the only important thing to a company.
We did get a grey clock (which is the best of the 3 clocks we had to make) to take home with us for completing the course.
