Empower your workers, standardize procedures and save stop making costly mistakes by delivering comprehensive and visual work instructions to your shop floor when and where they need them.
Even if dealing with multiple shifts and sites, numerous product variants and setups, Prodsmart makes it possible to have a paperless up-to-date central repository for managing work instructions.
Being a step-by-step guide, it will allow your operators to follow the process and know what is expected from them, by using pictures, text and documents and sharing it where it is needed: Right on the shop floor.
Why you should use our Work Instructions feature?
- Standardize your best practices and keep your production consistent, independently on the the site or on the operator;
- Onboard new operators faster and reduce training costs, by easily share and refresh their knowledge before starting a production process;
- Ensure that your Quality Standards are met, avoiding costly mistakes and reducing waste;
- Keep your team safe, by preventing accidents due to human error;
- Reduce downtime in your production, by improving your efficiency;
- Empower your workers by improving their efficiency.
Why will your operators love our Work Instructions Feature?
1. Knowledge
Your digital work instructions will give you workers timely information about every little step they need to accomplish their tasks. It will prevent and reduce errors, connecting to their tools and tasks in real-time. Your workers will be able to do good at their first attempt, and that will empower them.
2. Productivity
By guiding your workers through every step of the processes, smart work instructions will help them increase their throughput and their productivity. They will flow as the operation goes on, not slowing the process down.
Additionally, smart work instructions allow managers to identify outperformers and propagate their tribal knowledge to the rest of the team, turning every operator into the best operator.
3. Motivation
Our digital work instructions will engage and motivate your workers. They are visual and simple to understand, a world of possibilities for the managers and also for workers: They know what they are asked for, the standards they should work to achieve, and they can focus on improving their performance. Continuous improvement is the idea behind Kaizen, a key element to successful manufacturing businesses where all the employees are actively part of every accomplishment.
That surely is motivating!
Take a look at some tips we collected about how to write great and smart work instructions to leverage all these benefits and check our Help Center to see how easy it is to start using them!
If you’ve just realized that digital work instructions are precisely what’s missing on your shop floor, sign up now and start our free trial or send us a message.
