If the boardroom is where ideas are born, the manufacturing facility is where they come to life. It’s not easy giving birth to a new product, it has to go through so many tests both in terms of the performance and the quality. Test products take the brunt of the criticism so that you can find out what are the weaknesses of your design and what you could possibly do to improve them.
Despite deadlines being a key concern in the boardroom, you have to remember and always keep in mind that deadlines aren’t the concern of the manufacturing process, quality ends any and all debates. This means you have to give time to your facility and your employees to work out what the disadvantages are and what the positives are. In the end, you’ll get a detailed report of what is going on with your new product.
Therefore as the business owner, you need to give your people as much time and space to give you their best performance. By putting them in the right place and in the right role this is sure to happen.
Production line employee
The worker is the perhaps the most important part of the jigsaw puzzle that is a manufacturing facility. These are the skilled people that will be the most numerous. The production line cannot exist without workers on the line itself, either making the products by hand, controlling machines to make them or carefully monitoring the quality of the products coming down the line. Normally your workers will be specialists in one area, which means for each stage of the process you’ll need to hire different workers or simply train them all to work on all aspects.
Supervising the line
The supervisor is someone who has been through the production line as a worker themselves. They know the intricacies of each stage or can be specialists themselves. As being someone who has first-hand experience of working in the line, they are there to help workers with any minor problems. For example, if a tool isn’t working, the supervisor is first summoned by a worker and they will fix the problem. The supervisor is always the one who trains new workers also, or at least forms a team of experienced workers that do so.
A steady hand
The manager is overseeing the entire production line and every worker and supervisor. They are there to make sure quantity and quality is met simultaneously. Hiring the best kind of production managers will make everyday life in the facility run smoothly. If you are having a bit of bother finding production managers worth their weight in salt, use the services of someone like Pure Staff. They recruit all kinds of staff that work in the manufacturing industry. It’s also a cost-effective way to quickly fill a role when you’re growing or perhaps have been given a large seasonal order.
The next role is obviously the executive manager which is, of course, the CEO; which is you. Hiring the best people and putting them in the right role takes time to learn. As long as you have the basics learned, you will slowly catch on.
- This post has been written by an outside source for Morning Business Chat
