Industrial engineering involves the design, planning and improvement of processes using methods of work, engineering and business management.
The aim is to achieve high productivity in the management, core and support processes of the company. Target states and standards are defined and transparency is created in order to identify deviations and develop effective measures for improvement.
In many cases, we find agreements about recovery times in companies. These often originated in the 60/70s, where the focus was not yet primarily on the design of ergonomic workplaces. Therefore these surcharges were appropriate for their time. Today, however, due to the many internal and external improvement processes, the work processes are designed in such a way that recovery times are only justified occasionally.
More work – more money! This principle always works if all parameters are taken into account and all participants adhere to the rules. Incentive wage is a complex topic, it offers many risks and opportunities, and a lot of friction points but, above all, an improvement of the situation for those who are prepared to increase their performance.
In comparison to time recording, time studies are not a method for measuring activities but a method for determining time proportions in percentages by determining frequencies. In principle, this is a random sampling procedure, but it allows statistically verified statements about the temporal structure of the analysed processes.
Results for a wide range of applications can be derived from a time recording. The determined target times are used, among other things, for the calculation of processes, for payment by results, for process analysis, for internal and external benchmarking or for the determination of weak points and rationalization potentials.
Our employees are trained and have been working successfully with tested methods for many years. This provides them with practice-oriented methods and instruments for process-oriented work organisation which can be used to optimally analyse and design processes across all industries.
We, as management consultants from Bielefeld ⁄ OWL, offer a variety of tried and tested methods from industrial engineering.
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