How to Improve Manufacturing Productivity by Enhancing Employee Contentment

Taking steps to focus on and improve the contentment of the employees at a manufacturing facility should always be a top priority. Enhancing workplace contentment can potentially improve productivity, save money, and increase profit. Strategies for doing so should involve employee engagement efforts, including training and communication. It's also vital to maintain and upgrade the equipment that production employees use. For instance, accurate, non-contact vibration analysis equipment can ensure that machinery is functioning properly while reducing the need for employees to spend time shutting down machinery.
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Foster a Culture of Communication and Transparency

There's no better way to find out how the experiences of employees can be improved than by engaging with them about the work environment, their thoughts, and feelings. There are universal strategies for improving contentment and satisfaction, but every workplace is unique. Engage with employees to discover workplace-specific insights about their opinions on; what works, doesn't work, what they would prefer to change, and so on. Encourage a culture of communication, collaboration, and transparency while prioritizing timely responsiveness to the feedback received.

Provide the Tools, Maintain the Equipment

Not having the tools necessary to do the work most effectively and dealing with poorly-functioning or malfunctioning production assets is a virtually guaranteed morale-killer. It also makes for a considerably less safe and efficient facility. Make it a priority that employees always have the tools they need for the job. Additionally, prioritize predictive maintenance with proactive machine condition monitoring. Use a non-contact vibration analysis platform that employs Motion Amplification technology to visualize and measure a problematic motion that might indicate problems with assets. Using accurate, high-precision non-contact vibration analysis equipment to identify and measure problematic vibrations is an invaluable tool for keeping critical assets performing smoothly and at peak capacity.

Focus on Specific, Relevant Cross-Training

Training is an essential component of ensuring success in any position. Retraining should be as well. Insufficient training might cause bottlenecks due to human error, and cross-training might reveal opportunities to increase efficiency that might not otherwise have revealed themselves. Job- and role-specific training and cross-training can often smooth out those performance kinks and improve the overall confidence of personnel.

Organize and Standardize

Organizing and standardizing workflow processes helps to insulate them from human error. Standardized processes make it easier to evaluate and improve an individual's performance, and make it easier to identify common concerns or productivity hurdles. Detailed, step-by-step organization of workflow processes serve to remove doubt and ambiguity. Standardizing those processes for every role can successfully reduce uncertainty and confusion about who has what responsibility, avoid doubling up on tasks, and even help avoid possible conflicts regarding whose job it is to do what.

About RDI Technologies

Simply put, the RDI Technologies team has changed the predictive maintenance and machine condition monitoring space forever. The Iris M™ technology platform they developed is an unparalleled innovation that effectively uses each of a camera's pixels as a sensor. The resultant millions of sensors provide a crucial piece of RDI Technologies' Motion Amplification® technology by making motion visible that would otherwise remain invisible to the human eye. The real-time data provided by RDI Technologies' Iris M™ vibration monitoring platform, powered by Motion Amplification® technology, can be used to quickly identify problematic vibrations and lead to a swift resolution of root-cause issues. The data can be converted into informative and meaningful visualizations that clearly communicate critical information to both non-technical and technical team members. Plus, the Motion Amplification® technology by RDI Technologies doesn't require any downtime for setup.

Experience what an incredible difference the RDI Technologies Motion Amplification® platform can make at your manufacturing facility, at Rditechnologies.com

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