4 Templates for Planning Factory Management Improvements (XLS)

Does your factory, or a supplier’s factory, need to improve its fundamental organization? Are managers unsure of the roadmap to follow in order to implement factory management improvements?

Download 4 free templates devised by MTG covering factory systems, process controls, production planning, and project management...

Planning Factory Management Improvements 

In these 4 templates you will get:

• The list of steps to follow, in the right order
• A Gantt chart that indicates how long each step takes and what steps can be done concurrently

Beijing wants China’s industrial sector to gain in productivity and, more generally, to compete on the world stage on the basis of quality and innovation. That’s one of the key motives behind the 10-year ‘Made In China 2025’ plan.

Unfortunately, most Chinese factory owners show little interest in learning what it takes to improve their organization in the long run. What they focus on is “making deals”, extracting value in the short term, and investing it in real estate.

The reality is, there is a game plan for improving a manufacturing organization. Obviously the priority to follow and the specific adaptations will depend on each company’s specific situation, but by and large the recipes to implement are not all that different.

That’s why MTG have prepared 4 typical project plans that represent the approach we have followed in the course of several projects.

>> 4 Templates for Planning Factory Management Improvements (XLS) <<

Where To Start To Improve A Factory?

If you are not sure where to start, you can use one of these Excel templates and modify it to reflect your factory’s specific needs and challenges. It will help you draw a plan with your team and start implementing it, with or without guidance from consultants.

The templates will help you set up these types of systems:

1. A factory management system that aligns a whole manufacturing organization’s goals and objectives for improving faster and reaching superior results.
   
   
2. Good process controls to ensure products are of high quality and the factory doesn’t lose money due to excessive re-work, scrapped materials, and customer complaints.
   
   
3. A production planning system that is adapted to the particularities of the manufacturing activity, in Excel and then in an ERP system.
   
   
4. A solid project management system for factories that make highly-engineered products (custom-built for each project).

Each template contains a list of steps our consultants typically follow. The following information is shown for each step:

• Description -- what we do
• Pre-requisite -- who has to give some time, what information is needed, what other steps need to be done first...
• Deliverables -- what it brings to the organization
• Benefit -- in practice, how it helps the organization
• Criteria of acceptance – how to know if the step was completed

The purpose of showing such a level of detail is to make it clear how much work goes into building well-adapted systems that employees will actually follow.

Take action to improve your factory management today

Sometimes all it takes is some sound advice and information about improving processes for you to take action yourself.

Are you ready to take advantage of this unique opportunity to improve your factory? Just click the button below to request your free download!