In manufacturing and distribution, industrial engineers can help your operation achieve heights that may have never been possible before.
With labor costs rapidly increasing, it's more important than ever to ensure that you're getting the most out of your existing resources.
Engineers are aware of best manufacturing practices and create value through developing written work processes and helping standardize work within your business. Additionally, industrial engineers often accumulate credentials, such as Lean and Six Sigma, to identify more complex issues in operations and impactful solutions for your business.
Benefits of Engineering
Identify Operational Strengths & Weaknesses
Your business is only as strong as its biggest weakness. Engineers can identify weaknesses that upper-level management may not be able to recognize, as they are consumed with many other aspects of the business. On the other hand, understanding the strengths of your organization is just as important to your operation’s success. Without a firm grasp of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses, it is incredibly difficult to correct unsatisfactory practices while building upon specific aspects that have helped your business achieve its success thus far.
Boost Production Levels Through Innovative Solutions
Identifying core competencies and pain points is useless if your business is unable to take actionable plans and boost productivity as a result. Skilled engineers have worked with many different organizations to help them achieve the level of production they require to increase output.
This experience is invaluable in creating solutions that have been proven to work for other companies in similar positions.
This reduces the time that may be wasted by implementing ineffective plans or trying to "reinvent the wheel." This is a key element our engineers bring to our solution and it leads to increased productivity levels across an operation.
Create Better Training Plans
Properly training employees is vital for every organization. While proper training leads to better results by workers, many people learn and process information differently, meaning it is important to create plans that are not centered around a single mode of learning. Industrial engineers can create visual aids and standard operating procedures that allow trainers and coaches to teach incoming employees in a way that is both easy to instruct, but also conducive to different learning comprehension styles.
Creating better training plans equips your workers with the knowledge they need to perform their job duties effectively and efficiently.
Develop Metrics to Track Performance
Anything that is not measured cannot effectively be improved upon. With industrial engineering, standards and methodologies can be developed to help measure key metrics, including quality, output, and safety. Evaluating employee performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs) enables your organization to make operational and personnel decision based on fact, rather than guesswork. Using standardized metrics helps your team stay on top of production while also making informed decisions based on this information.
Improve Your Business Process with Industrial Engineering
The true value of engineering is seldom realized until it is implemented and utilized consistently for a fixed period of time. At Insource, we understand the challenges managers and executives may face when attempting to optimize and improve their labor strategy. That is why we have engineering resources as part of our solutions for our customers to help deliver actionable steps that are cost-effective and sure to provide tangible results.
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