Glamor Economics

Chapter 56

Chapter 8 Section 3 Can an Apron Create Benefits—Production Efficiency

Efficiency determines benefits, and also determines the competitiveness and vitality of an enterprise.Regarding the issue of production efficiency, there is a case of "production efficiency apron", from which we can see the impact of production efficiency on the operation of an enterprise.

An engineer stood in the workshop and intuitively told him that the production efficiency here was extremely low. He asked the accompanying workshop director: "When you are looking for a head, you need to strip part of the yarn from the silk cake, and then put the stripped yarn directly Throw it on the ground or temporarily store it in the winding drum. After finding the raw silk, use a broom to clean the residual silk on the ground. After cleaning the waste silk, put it into the basket and then put it into the waste silk bag. It takes 2 to 3 minutes to collect the yarn temporarily stored in the winding drum into the waste silk bag, and you calculate the total time lost for this shift.”

"Yes, we clean about 20 times per shift, which wastes 40 to 60 minutes." The workshop director made a quick calculation in his heart, and then said.

"In addition to affecting production efficiency, the current practice will also cause other troubles. You see, almost all the spinning wheel wheels in the company are entangled with waste yarn, which will make it difficult to push and pull the spinning wheel, and even damage the balls inside the wheels. , causing damage to the car, it's like the front and rear axles of a bicycle are wound into wires."

The engineer went on to say: "I have observed every process in your factory, and I have never been able to find the root cause of the waste silk winding on the yarn wheel. In fact, you also know very well that it is your peeling area that throws the silk to the on the ground, causing the waste silk of the spinning wheel to tangle."

The workshop director nodded frequently: "How to solve this problem?"

"The key to this question is not to throw the waste silk on the ground, is it?"

"Correct."

"Then where do you put the waste silk? You can't let the employees send the full handful of waste silk to the waste silk bag every time." The waste silk bag is in a corner of the workshop, very close to the peeling area, but every time I go It is obviously not suitable to go up so few steps.

The engineer asked the workshop director: "Have you ever seen cotton picking in the countryside?" A large amount of cotton is planted on the North China Plain. Every year when the harvest season comes, farmers will be busy picking cotton in the fields in twos and threes.

"I've seen that they use aprons to pick up cotton—I understand!" Soon, the workshop director reported a plan to improve production efficiency.The scheme is as follows:
One apron is provided for each headhunter. In order to facilitate the storage of residual silk, the size of the apron can be appropriately increased to 20 (length) cm×15 (width) cm, and a rubber band is added to the upper opening to reduce it to prevent leakage of residual silk; The straps are each 1 meter long, and the neck straps are 30 cm long.

Materials used and general investment amount:

1.丝绸布约30米，金额：30米×20元/米＝600元

2.皮筋8米，金额：8米×0.8元/米＝6.4元

Improved effect:

1. The ground is clean and there is no excess yarn entangled on the wheel, which avoids the potential damage of the spinning wheel (because the wheel of the spinning wheel is free of debris and easy to push and pull), and improves the efficiency at the same time.

2.节省扫地时间及重复劳动，每班可节约40～60分钟。一天节约一人半个班（4小时）的劳动量，平均每天节约工资350元。

3. The working procedure is simplified (that is, it is not necessary to put the residual yarn into the yarn drum or the ground first, and then be cleaned by the head finder).

An apron thus improves productivity.

Production efficiency refers to the ratio between actual output and maximum output under fixed input.It can reflect the degree of achieving the maximum output target or the best operating service.It can also measure the performance of economic entities in terms of output, cost, revenue, or profit.Production efficiency is the transfer efficiency of materials and energy around ecosystems, communities, populations, individuals, etc.Widely used in production ecology, its content is multifaceted, and can be divided into four categories: efficiency in the ecosystem and even in the community; efficiency in individuals and even in the population; efficiency between predators and prey; efficiency around the population .

To improve production efficiency, there are mainly the following methods:

1.To increase production, the system goes first.First of all, enterprises must establish a sound production system to ensure that production has rules to follow.

2.Regularly feed back the production status to the relevant departments, and the relevant departments will keep abreast of and quickly adjust the production plan.

3.There are clear rewards and punishments.Highly productive employees deserve to be rewarded as they should.

4.Double optimization of tools and technologies.Even top-notch employees cannot achieve high efficiency in the face of outdated tools and technologies.

5.Motivate employees.Energetic employees are the company's most valuable human resources.Only this resource is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.We should fully tap it and use it to make the most of it.

6.Enhance team cohesion.Team cohesion plays an important role in team behavior and team function.It can enhance the interaction and communication among team members and improve the combat effectiveness of the team.

[links to related words]

Product quality is in the category of commodity economy. According to specific standards, enterprises conduct necessary information disclosure in the whole process of product planning, design, manufacturing, testing, measurement, transportation, storage, sales, after-sales service, and ecological recycling.In addition to physical products, product quality also includes intangible product quality, that is, service product quality.The quality of service is also standard.

Technological progress mainly refers to innovations and improvements in production processes, intermediate inputs, and manufacturing skills.The specific performance is: the transformation of old equipment and the use of new equipment to improve the old process, the use of new processes and new raw materials and energy to improve the original products, research and development of new products, and improve the labor skills of workers.Technological progress in a broad sense is not only reflected in the improvement of hard technologies such as production techniques, skills, and intermediate inputs, but also in the improvement of organizational management efficiency, the completion of decision-making communication mechanisms, access to economies of scale, smooth financing channels, and production factors such as human capital. quality improvement etc.Generally speaking, technological progress can be achieved through technological innovation, technological diffusion, and technological spillover.

Benefit refers to the contribution of the project to the national economy, which includes the direct benefit of the project itself and the indirect benefit caused by the project.

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