Performance indicators
Choose, calculate, display and keep alive three to five performance indicators on a line, so that the team sees every day where it stands and knows what to act on.
This course is aimed at team leaders, shop floor managers, methods technicians and continuous improvement facilitators who need to track the performance of a line, a press or a packaging station without spending their whole day on it. Many shop floors already display figures; few use them to decide something that same morning.
By the end, you will know how to distinguish a result indicator from a steering indicator, choose three to five indicators for your line together with the team, write a one-page sheet for each (definition, formula, source, frequency, owner), display them according to the rules of visual management and use them in a five-minute daily meeting to move from the observed gap to a dated action.
What you will be able to do
- Explain in one sentence what a performance indicator (KPI) is for and why it does not replace acting on the causes.
- Distinguish a result indicator (what happened) from a steering indicator (what will move the result) and give an example of each on your line.
- Collectively choose three to five indicators for a line, each easy to collect, simply calculated and tracked at the right frequency.
- Write a complete indicator sheet: definition, formula, data source, frequency, owner, target.
- Display an indicator so it can be read in under ten seconds: target, value, gap, trend, colour code.
- Use the indicators in a daily team meeting to move from a gap to a dated action with a named owner.
The path
- An indicator answers a question, not a habit 4 min
- Choosing three to five indicators for the line, with the team 5 min
- Writing the indicator sheet and organising the collection 4 min
- Display the indicator so it can be read in ten seconds 4 min
- Moving from gap to action in the daily meeting 5 min
Prerequisites
No Lean prerequisites. Working on or supervising a production line and knowing its stoppages, scrap and daily volumes is enough. Knowing what OEE is helps but is not necessary: it is recalled in one sentence when it appears.
The closing quiz
The topic ends with a 7-question quiz, and a certificate is issued on success.