subject: Finding Ways To Save Your Business Money [print this page] Look around you, identify where you are wasting money. Some of them seem fairly easy to identify. Other wastes can be hidden away, not easily recognizable until other problems are fixed first. How do you go about tackling the problems and fixing them? Does the problem have to work itself all the way up the chain of command?
What if there is a problem with the production, can someone have the power to stop it immediately or must is go through various channels and around corners and finally stop at an office miles from the source of the problem? How many bad parts were made in the meantime? How much money did it cost your company? How much money did it cost you? Who is responsible for making certain that mistakes are minimized? Is there more than one person who is responsible for the elimination of errors or to see that they are at least keep to a minimum?
If there is more than one person who is in charge of this department are they in constant communication? They must be able to discuss what is happening and everyone needs to be on the same page. The main objective of eliminating errors is to be more efficient and waste less money. If you are constantly developing new parts, to correct problems and errors, then the process is neither efficient nor money saving. Every time you have to redo a part or replace a faulty part, you are wasting money.
Money is not only wasted in parts but also by having to pay workers to continuously correct these mistakes, and that can become very expensive. Even worse than these additional costs is the loss of customer confidence. Each time they receive a part that is not perfect and has to be replaced, they lose confidence in your company. They lose confidence in your ability to make a quality product and lose confidence in your ability to control the quality of your product.
Without effective and good quality control department, trying to monitor quality is useless. You must be able to control the materials that are entering the plant that are being used in the process of building your parts. In addition, you must be able to verify the quality of the products that leave your plant. The faulty parts should not make it to the final check point for a product. They should be removed from the process well before they come close to leaving the line.
