Following a site diagnostic event and discussion around process and people improvement it was decided that a robust data collection system be developed to enable the Senior Management team to fully understand the key areas of opportunity.
Supported a workshop where the OEE measure be could be developed, highlighting all Availability, Performance and Quality Losses.
The base line OEE prior to the Kaizen workshop was calculated at 45%.
Improvement
Completed Activity
Introduction of SMED / Rapid changeover methods on High Care Pack Lines.
Improved Oven utilisation by challenging temperature profile paradigms.
Dedication of assets in Production & Chilling to Green / Red stream to improve utilisation.
Standardisation of shift start-up disciplines in High Care Pack.
Team flexibility increased to enable bottleneck assets to run through tea breaks.