Ed Stanek
Many of us have heard that the average craft productivity across the industry is 30%. The problem is that few of us have established our own baseline as we struggle with limited resources and high costs.
Defining and measuring this problem can easily be performed but there are many known “pitfalls” in this activity. How do you approach this sensitive subject in a way that measures “what our team deals with” rather than a time-study on them as individuals?
Capturing detailed analysis through GEMBA exercises builds trust, provides self-awareness, scrutiny of today’s “normal”, and provides valuable feedback to our planning and scheduling processes.
If we understand what gets in the way of executing work (8-wastes), we can link those delays directly to the work management workflow and their sub-processes for a level of visibility and defect elimination not seen before.