Optimizing Operations: Benefits and Types of Work Measurement – Webinar
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Benefits of Work Measurement
Work measurement is a foundational practice for improving efficiency and productivity. By systematically analyzing the time and effort required to perform tasks, organizations can achieve a variety of benefits:
- Improved Planning and Scheduling: Accurate time standards allow for better resource allocation, project timelines, and production scheduling.
- Enhanced Cost Control: By knowing the time it takes to produce a product or deliver a service, businesses can more accurately estimate costs, set prices, and manage budgets.
- Performance Evaluation: Work measurement provides a fair and objective basis for evaluating employee or team performance, setting realistic goals, and identifying training needs.
- Process Improvement: By identifying and eliminating non-value-added time, organizations can streamline workflows, reduce waste, and increase overall productivity.
- Informed Decision-Making: Data from work measurement provides a solid foundation for capital investment decisions, process redesign, and outsourcing analyses.
Don’t miss this opportunity to become an expert in work measurements and the latest lean and continuous improvement tools.
Who Should Attend:
- Anyone responsible for ensuring efficient, consistent plant operations
- Production and operations engineers
- Plant managers
- Shop supervisors
- Foremen
- Technicians
- Line workers
- Lean and continuous improvement practitioners
Key Takeaways:
- Learn about current tools of time study
- Examples of real life projects and outcomes
- Video-based time and motion study
- Standard work instructions: automatic creation and maintenance
- Value-added analysis
- Ergonomic analysis: customized to your internal health and safety needs
- PFMEA: Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Presenter
Haleh Byrne
Product Lead – Industrial Engineering, Systems & Student Projects
Email: haleh_byrne@ncsu.edu | Phone: 919.830.5101
Haleh Byrne is the product lead for industrial engineering and student projects at NC State’s Industry Extension Services (IES). She leads a wide spectrum of industrial engineering services and projects. She engages NC State students as part of her project teams in the areas of productivity and quality improvements, costing, facilities layout, process and training documentation, ergonomics assessments and scheduling, as well as client-customized projects. She also provides Lean, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and work measurement training in conjunction with Timer Pro (video analysis software) workshops as well as related implementation events. Haleh manages student projects which provide services for clients. With over500+ projects, involving 2000+ students in the past two decades, clients have reported strong impacts in flexible duration and diverse engineering disciplines. Haleh has more than 30 years of experience in multiple industries as an industrial/product/quality engineer. She worked at Flextronics in Youngsville as a product engineer. Her prior work history includes being an industrial engineer at the U.S. Postal Service in Los Angeles, an industrial/quality engineer at General Motors, an industrial engineer at Monsanto Electronic Materials in St. Louis and an industrial/quality engineer Buehler Products in Cary. Haleh obtained her B.S. in industrial engineering from NC State. She is an ASQ certified quality engineer and is SME bronze Lean certified. She also has extensive training and experience in statistical engineering as well as project management. Haleh is currently the IIE Raleigh Chapter President and Lean Division Board Director at Institute of Industrial Engineers. She served as education chair for ASQ Raleigh Chapter from 2009-2012 and has presented at many professional conferences.
