Whatever the need, Productivity Assignments would most likely have dealt with it elsewhere, and met or surpassed client expectations. You can have peace of mind that you are dealing with experienced professionals.

Productivity Assignments offers a management consultancy in a number of various fields:

  • Lean manufacturing
  • Sigma
  • Performance measurement
  • Kanbans
  • Production planning
  • Value added manufacture
  • Benchmarking
  • Just-in-time
  • World class manufacturing
  • Single minute exchange of dies (SMED)
  • Manning level assessment
  • Line balancing
  • ergonomics
  • Re-engineering (BPR)
  • Work groups
  • Overhead right - sizing
  • Failure mode and effects analysis
  • Industrial engineering / work study


Assessment Report service
We are regularly requested by our clients to undertake an assessment of a particular area of concern.

Productivity Assignments will conduct empirical shop floor studies to ascertain, amongst others:

  • System effectiveness
  • Machine downtime / utilisation
  • Dominant reasons for the downtime
  • Labour utilisation
  • Process efficiencies
  • Distribution effectiveness
  • Customer satisfaction levels
  • Supply chain integration levels
  • Standards - acting as an independent adjudicator of standards in the case of union / management disagreements
  • Man assignment appraisal
  • Space utilisation
  • Quantification of potential lost revenues or any other area of concern that you may want to assess

Our reports are independent and are used to:

  • Identify and provide confirmation of problem areas
  • Quantify the extent of the problem
  • Assist with the prioritization of scarce resources
  • Determine the internal value stream
  • Audit the manufacturing processes

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