Comments on: Dealing With High Turnover http://theleanthinker.com/2008/08/04/dealing-with-high-turnover/ Thoughts and insights from the shop floor. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Fernandez http://theleanthinker.com/2008/08/04/dealing-with-high-turnover/comment-page-1/#comment-6176 Jim Fernandez Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:12:02 +0000 http://theleanthinker.com/2008/08/04/dealing-with-high-turnover/#comment-6176 Thank you for the great advice. If I owned the company I work for I’d hunt you down and have you here helping us first hand. You mentioned cross training our workers. Great idea. We now do this out of desperation. But I want to do it using a logical and planned approach. I’ll work on this… Your so right about not starting a job until you have all the parts. We have a BIG problem with that. We start a lot of jobs with some of the parts missing. Hoping that those missing parts will arrive when we need them. There are unfinished jobs sitting all over the place. Our system does not work as bad as you might think. We have been doing it for many many years. So much waste.!!!! I’ve been hired to help change it. Thank you so much for the TWI information.!!! I’ll check into that. Good point on inspection. We have a ton of inspection steps. Mostly required by our customer. (We make aerospace (air plane) parts) I think we need to be more proactive about our errors. Currently we fix errors by modifying and changing the procedure. I don’t think we analyze the error enough to find out the root cause. I agree 100% with your statement; “Compensation, in general, is a relatively poor indicator of job satisfaction. Far more important is a daily demonstration that someone cares and is committed to the Team Member’s success.” Thank you so much.!!! Thank you for the great advice. If I owned the company I work for I’d hunt you down and have you here helping us first hand.

You mentioned cross training our workers. Great idea. We now do this out of desperation. But I want to do it using a logical and planned approach. I’ll work on this…

Your so right about not starting a job until you have all the parts. We have a BIG problem with that. We start a lot of jobs with some of the parts missing. Hoping that those missing parts will arrive when we need them. There are unfinished jobs sitting all over the place. Our system does not work as bad as you might think. We have been doing it for many many years. So much waste.!!!! I’ve been hired to help change it.

Thank you so much for the TWI information.!!! I’ll check into that.

Good point on inspection. We have a ton of inspection steps. Mostly required by our customer. (We make aerospace (air plane) parts) I think we need to be more proactive about our errors. Currently we fix errors by modifying and changing the procedure. I don’t think we analyze the error enough to find out the root cause.

I agree 100% with your statement; “Compensation, in general, is a relatively poor indicator of job satisfaction. Far more important is a daily demonstration that someone cares and is committed to the Team Member’s success.”

Thank you so much.!!!

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