Effective management of the labour resource within a manufacturing environment can have a significant impact on the profits of the company.  Gemba’s GAIN4 LABOUR can help to make sure that your business is  working at optimum efficiency.

Maximise efficiency and profits, minimise downtime

When managing manufacturing processes, knowing when staff are in or out and understanding the skills of each team member is vital in planning how these processes and their associated shifts will run.  This could include making adjustments to accommodate unexpected absences, for example.  Using GAIN4 LABOUR, machinery downtime is kept to a minimum by making sure that resources are available and are appropriately deployed. Understanding actual labour usage (units per man hour) will enable comparisons with the cost standards that your company works to, and allow management to make adjustments to ensure that profits can be maximised.  With the addition of Gemba’s Third Party Interface software, GAIN4 LABOUR will also link with time and attendance systems to pass on actual labour usage data.

The benefits of working in real-time

GAIN4 LABOUR captures data automatically from the shop floor.  This gives a huge advantage in being able to address labour problems as soon as they occur; knowing instantly that someone hasn’t turned up one morning, or that another person has been assigned to a machine they don’t know how to run, will enable changes to be made immediately so that downtime is minimised.  Don’t wait until the weekly production meeting to find out that last week’s downtime figures have gone through the roof because of labour issues— use GAIN4 LABOUR to get one step ahead.

Get rid of reporting headaches

Companies can often obtain data relating to labour usage, but making sure that data is accurate, and getting it into a usable and meaningful format is often time-consuming and difficult, and turning it into something suitable for the monthly management reporting can become a real problem.  GAIN4 LABOUR collects data from shop floor machines automatically, so errors are eradicated at source.  This data feeds in to the standard reporting package within this module,  allowing the analysis of labour usage and efficiency, comparison of shifts and provision of clear and concise graphical representations to share with colleagues.