Chalmers Conferences, The 6th Swedish Production Symposium

HOW TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY BY 160%
Peter Almström, Emil Hansson, Johannes Samuelsson

Last modified: 2014-11-25

Abstract


There is a large capacity increase potential in Swedish industry through increasing productivity of existing resources without investing in more machines or personnel. This article presents a case study where the capacity could increase more than 160% percent. This was proven by a test in running production. This tremendous increase was made possible through standardization and time setting of all work tasks. A new scheduling system was made up of product activity sequences based on a vast library of over 800 standardized generic activities.


Keywords


Standardization, Planning, Capacity, Productivity

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