Efficient Production
REFA brings new momentum for continuous improvement / Kaizen continuously track efficiency reserves and harness that is imperative in the current economic climate for most companies to ensure their own survival. For manufacturers, this means to refine CIP and Kaizen concepts or but with high pressure to introduce, if this has not yet happened. According to opinion of the REFA Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland it is enough to do this, but not to shift technical operations and alone to expect an improvement in earnings. The key to the success was rather that the people who work in the production, make improvement to their cause and actively support the efficiency, so the national organization of the prestigious Association for work design, operations, and business development. Be better tomorrow than today is therefore the motto of a completely new learning concept, developed for production employees and their managers REFA and now is has been introduced under the name of learning factory in the market. During one single produced a real industrial product with all typical operations, as well as the internal and external networks to two-day event.
Thus the participants of the connections are made aware, depend on where the production results to be achieved. A central effect of the learning factory is that participants see the inefficiency of many work processes and the concomitant waste of time and material formally learn, says Jurgen John, Deputy Chairman of the REFA land organization and one of the designers of the learning factory. Continuous improvement and Kaizen are now generally recognized as a production philosophy, but implementation remains in many companies far behind the possibilities. In the context of the learning factory, participants develop an understanding for the idea of Kaizen and Kaizen and they discover concrete approaches for improvements in their operation. John: It is also I’m sure that it depends mainly from the combination of hard and soft factors, whether the improvement measures are successful. The actual work is not yet done with visiting the learning factory of course, but it develops a high level of motivation to tackle concrete improvement measures. Their implementation is supported by REFA on request. For this purpose, the Association holds not only experts for production processes, but also for team work, leadership, and change management.