Improving general efficiency of a company
Vasina, Anastasia (2018)
Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201804074230
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201804074230
Tiivistelmä
The subject of the study was improvement of the general efficiency in the company that is specialized in underwater ship maintenance, repair and inspections. The objective of the study was to find out the weak spots and existing problems in the company and suggest ways to remove them.
The study was conducted using qualitative and quantitative analysis. The material was collected during the internship from interviews with the employees, own observations and measurements that were done to test the hypotheses.
As a result, the weak spots were found and the main one was the wasted time on preparations for the job. Other issues such as proper planning of the layout of the warehouse and poor communication between workers were found.
Based on the discovered problems, a few suggestions were proposed. 5S implementation is among the proposed solutions and an instruction on implementation was presented in
the study.
The study was conducted using qualitative and quantitative analysis. The material was collected during the internship from interviews with the employees, own observations and measurements that were done to test the hypotheses.
As a result, the weak spots were found and the main one was the wasted time on preparations for the job. Other issues such as proper planning of the layout of the warehouse and poor communication between workers were found.
Based on the discovered problems, a few suggestions were proposed. 5S implementation is among the proposed solutions and an instruction on implementation was presented in
the study.