Ver. 5.0 Employee Efficiency

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Thank you very much to both Todd's!

I was suspecting this would be a report we would have to write, but our CFO
wanted to also find out how others handle this issue. I can do some report
writing, problem usually being finding the time to do so! We'll take a
closer look at this based on the info from both of you. Thanks so very
much.

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 11:04 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Ver. 5.0 Employee Efficiency


It has been awhile since I looked at it but if I recall correctly in some
reports of my own that I wrote (RB) I calculated the pcs/hr rate the
employee produced in their time clocked in and compared this to either the
standard or to the estimated for that job/operation. If the estimated was
100 pcs per hour and they produced 180 in two hours (90/hr) they would be
90% in efficiency. We have some reports that show total efficiency for the
prior day by employee and rank them so the supervisors can call the bottom
3-4 into their office for "discussions" - often revealing machine
maintenance issues or tooling setup problems as the root cause. On the flip
side the top 3-4 get an "atta-boy/girl". The PDR didn't give us what we
needed for efficiency tracking.
-Todd C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Fairchild [mailto:mfairchild@...]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 4:11 PM
To: Vantage (Vantage List)
Subject: [Vantage] Ver. 5.0 Employee Efficiency


We are trying to look at employee efficiency and I'm wondering if we have
missed a setting or perhaps we just don't understand how it is supposed to
work.
Looking at the Production Detail Report, here is what we are seeing:
Say we have a job that is for 300 parts and we are looking at operation 20.
Employee1 works on that job for an entire shift, and completes operation 20
on 100 of the parts. Now Employee2 that works the next shift completes 125
parts, operation 20 and then Employee3 comes along and finishes the last 75
parts on operation 20. What we are seeing on the Production Detail Report
is that Employee1 has 0% efficiency, Employee2 has 0% efficiency and
Employee3 has a whopping 140% efficiency! It appears that no efficiency is
calculated at all until the operation is complete, and then it appears that
only the last person to work on the operation has any calculation shown at
all. I'm sure we are not the only business that continues a job and
operation from shift to shift or even from one day to the next. What are we
missing or not understanding?
What do other companies use to measure the performance of direct labor
personnel?

Thank you for you help.

Marilyn Fairchild
Systems Administrator
Pickwick Manufacturing Services




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We are trying to look at employee efficiency and I'm wondering if we have
missed a setting or perhaps we just don't understand how it is supposed to
work.
Looking at the Production Detail Report, here is what we are seeing:
Say we have a job that is for 300 parts and we are looking at operation 20.
Employee1 works on that job for an entire shift, and completes operation 20
on 100 of the parts. Now Employee2 that works the next shift completes 125
parts, operation 20 and then Employee3 comes along and finishes the last 75
parts on operation 20. What we are seeing on the Production Detail Report
is that Employee1 has 0% efficiency, Employee2 has 0% efficiency and
Employee3 has a whopping 140% efficiency! It appears that no efficiency is
calculated at all until the operation is complete, and then it appears that
only the last person to work on the operation has any calculation shown at
all. I'm sure we are not the only business that continues a job and
operation from shift to shift or even from one day to the next. What are we
missing or not understanding?
What do other companies use to measure the performance of direct labor
personnel?

Thank you for you help.

Marilyn Fairchild
Systems Administrator
Pickwick Manufacturing Services




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It has been awhile since I looked at it but if I recall correctly in some reports of my own that I wrote (RB) I calculated the pcs/hr rate the employee produced in their time clocked in and compared this to either the standard or to the estimated for that job/operation. If the estimated was 100 pcs per hour and they produced 180 in two hours (90/hr) they would be 90% in efficiency. We have some reports that show total efficiency for the prior day by employee and rank them so the supervisors can call the bottom 3-4 into their office for "discussions" - often revealing machine maintenance issues or tooling setup problems as the root cause. On the flip side the top 3-4 get an "atta-boy/girl". The PDR didn't give us what we needed for efficiency tracking.
-Todd C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Fairchild [mailto:mfairchild@...]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 4:11 PM
To: Vantage (Vantage List)
Subject: [Vantage] Ver. 5.0 Employee Efficiency


We are trying to look at employee efficiency and I'm wondering if we have
missed a setting or perhaps we just don't understand how it is supposed to
work.
Looking at the Production Detail Report, here is what we are seeing:
Say we have a job that is for 300 parts and we are looking at operation 20.
Employee1 works on that job for an entire shift, and completes operation 20
on 100 of the parts. Now Employee2 that works the next shift completes 125
parts, operation 20 and then Employee3 comes along and finishes the last 75
parts on operation 20. What we are seeing on the Production Detail Report
is that Employee1 has 0% efficiency, Employee2 has 0% efficiency and
Employee3 has a whopping 140% efficiency! It appears that no efficiency is
calculated at all until the operation is complete, and then it appears that
only the last person to work on the operation has any calculation shown at
all. I'm sure we are not the only business that continues a job and
operation from shift to shift or even from one day to the next. What are we
missing or not understanding?
What do other companies use to measure the performance of direct labor
personnel?

Thank you for you help.

Marilyn Fairchild
Systems Administrator
Pickwick Manufacturing Services




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