Increasing labor productivity in your bakery means increasing value added per worker or per hour worked.
Many bakery plants in developing world are labor intensive .Workers are involved in most of the jobs such as transportation , packaging , feeding to mixers and packing machines , unloading and loading at stores and dispatch , Material movement inside production hall ,Ingredient preparation ,Hygiene and sanitation , pest control , rework , taping , sealing and other miscellaneous activity .
Output of any manufacturing unit can be increased by automation or capital investment but it would require major capital investment which most of the bakeries are not in position to do .
Hence other options are smaller modifications in plant layout to increase productivity,discovering any new recipe with lower cost ingredients or optimize time of process .Options for labor productivity are either you control on several wastages in labor activity or Innovate in process.
Wastages which results in low productivity are
Waste during Operations -Too much handling of products and packing material .
Waste of Movement – To much movement in packing section where movements involves
.Packing material from stores to shop floor
Changeover to different product
Re work of rejected packets
Taping on cartons
Labeling , coding , stickering and strapping
Transferring carton boxes to pallets
Waste on Rework - Companies are focused for production figures rather than quality products through process with quality checks in place. Rejected materials are then re worked for packaging involving labor .World class measures defects in parts per millions ( PPM) where as here in our country budgeted defects are in terms of 5%-3%.
Physical strain and stress on workers – Process have certain activity where workers are physically stressed or strained impacting productivity . One of them is material handling which can be reduced by having equipments such as pallets trucks , trolleys , chain hoist , drum tilters , forklifts etc.Working Environment also adds to worker productivity companies have to provide dust proof ,proper ambience in their factory to work .Few standards are mentioned in Factory Act which relates to min and max weight s which a worker can handle , noise , sanitation , height and lighting of factory .
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