Utilize delay study to identify equipment breakdowns, product change overs, and shortage of materials
Conduct a work sampling study to observe overall system performance through capturing process delays, value add, non-value add, and personal work activities
Utilize group timing technique to identify system performance of a group of operators
PREDETERMINED TIME STANDARDS
Modular Arrangement of Predetermined Time Standards (MODAPTS)
Methods-Time Measurement (MTM)
Utilize MODAPTS or MTM as a work measurement technique to relate each movement or motion to a standard time
MODAPTS and MTM can be used to set time standards for new processes that cannot yet be observed
OPTIMIZE MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY
Utilize a work combination charts to visually display the time is takes to complete each task in the process broken down into process operations categories
Document the current line balance for a process to understand the workload across all stations
Develop proposed operator work balance to better level workload across a process, removing bottlenecks
Organize and display key process times and process flow within a work cell using standard work charts
Analyze Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to identify losses in production and guide improvement efforts to target the availability, performance, and quality of a manufacturing process
Utilize linear programming to find the optimal values for any decision variable based on a given set of constraints
ERGONOMICS EVALUATION
Evaluate all tasks, operations, and work activities where there are ergonomic risk factors
Identify problematic tasks and risk factors associated
Utilize the Potential Ergonomics Issue List (PEIL) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) lifting equation methodologies
