CSM- The New Shop floor Management System

                                  

About the author : I am N.Lakshminarayanan,20 years of experience in various industries in production,Maintenance,Manufacturing and Projects Depts.Basically a Diploma Holder and further upgraded to BS from BITS pilani and MBA in Production Management from Madurai Kamaraj University.

           

     CSM- The New Shop Floor Management System

                 Developed based on the Quote of one of the Greatest Scientist .

                   "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
                                      ~ Albert Einstein

            The Speed of innovation in Information Technology and other fields as both "frightening and fascinating. The shop floor is updated about 30 years back. After that we are just maintaining it without any major innovations. We  the  shop floor people are really not much updated in terms of innovation ,passion ,speed and modernization. Please read the following cases which are regularly happening in our shop floor.

Case 1- One of the Automotive MNC, Chennai. Production Meeting

Production  Manager Says :Due to CNC boring Machine down for 25 mints. production target is not met..

Case 2- One of the Electronics manufacturing company in Gurgaon Scrap meeting.

QC Engineer says : Operator has not followed the MIS is the reason for 10 nos. scrap.

Case  3: One of the textile company in Surat  OHS Meeting

OHS Specialist says : Machine door design is the problem for yesterday’s Incident.

Each one of the shop floor members blaming other team members for not achieving their target. Is it the real competent of the shop floor?.

We are doing small improvements every day but is it really gives any breakthrough in the shop floor .

Please read the special case which is happened in one of the Largest Manufacturing company in Chennai.

Feb 25 2014 Morning 9:00am,all the  shop floor members were received an E-Mail from the Maintenance  and Process Head   and surprised ,shocked and interested to know  in detail. Is it the salary hike, Production incentive or mega entertaining event.

Nothing !

It is about to change the shop floor culture  which was successfully tested again . The mail says   We will achieve” zero Down time, Zero Scrap and Zero Incidents” and having the PPT attachment  called “Eureka week”.

The Eureka week is the program conducted by one of the Team Leader which is the part  of the innovation  shop floor program.

The eureka week is the outcome of next generation shop floor culture  called “CSM “

I guess most of  you are interested to know further about CSM like What it is?, How to do it? Who will initiate it? What are the drawbacks of it? And so on..

In comings days I will explain all about the CSM  with case studies which are 100% successfully  implemented in multiple shop floors.

The people who are all worked with me  Should know in detail ,but I want to share such Culture to each and every one shop floor people.

Think and wait for some more time…

Regards

N.Lakshminarayanan