• Closed-Loop Corrective Action, as required by ISO 9000.
• Design of Experiments (DOE) and evolutionary optimization (EVOP)
• Logistics and Transportation: Freight Management Systems (FMS), Third Party Logistics (3PL)
• Production Control

• The Problem: Transportation economies of scale call for large but infrequent loads.
• Just-in-time calls for small but frequent loads.
• "JIT warehouse" is an obvious oxymoron.
• Deliver large loads to the warehouse.
• Take small loads from the warehouse to the factory. This is, of course, simply moving the inventory instead of getting rid of it.
• Note that the two dirty words of lean and JIT have nine letters instead of four: "warehouse" and "inventory."
• A good FMS makes true JIT deliveries economical.
• Truck sharing
• Load consolidation
• Norwood's Ford: Men and Methods (1931, 20-24) gives an outstanding summary of what a good FMS does.
• The Ford logistics system was a "continent-spanning conveyor."
• Deliveries were coordinated, scheduled precisely, and apparently just-in-time.
• Supply was never to exceed or fall short of requirements.
• "Using that multitude of additional links offered by rail, highway, water, and air, it has butt-welded them with their own time-tables and picketed them with telegraphic checkings as watchful as the straw bosses who supervise progression along the conveyor lines of the shop."
• Per Ford, the location of any rail car could be determined to within an hour.
• Third party logistics (3PL) systems
• Complete FMSs are expensive.
• 3PL services work with several carriers to coordinate and consolidate shipments. They often don't own any transportation assets themselves.

Principle 1. Segmentation

1. Divide an object into independent parts.
   • Replace mainframe computer by personal computers.
   • Replace a large truck by a truck and trailer.
   • Use a work breakdown structure for a large project.
   • [Henry Ford: subdivision of labor to reduce waste motion of picking up and putting down tools]
     
   • [Henry Ford: stamp or press parts and weld them instead of casting an entire part.]
     

Would you like to reduce your workers' compensation premiums by 5 percent each year? Thousands of PA employers have already saved millions in insurance premiums by setting up a workplace safety committee that meets the requirements for state certification. That's millions that companies are using to buy new equipment, hire more workers, expand their businesses, and even pay bonuses to employees -- money that used to go to paying insurance premiums!

What do you have to do?

 

Establish a safety committee that meets certain requirements, fill out a committee certification application and have it approved by the Department of Labor and Industry.

 

 

What are the basic committee requirements?

• Committees must have a minimum of 2 employer and 2 employee representatives, meet monthly and be in operation for at least 6 full months.
  
  
• All committee members must be trained by qualified trainers in safety committee operation, hazard inspection and accident investigation.
  
  
• Committee meeting agendas, attendance lists and meeting minutes must be kept.

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The mission and function of the WorkSAFE PA initiative is to provide Pennsylvania employers and employees with the information and technical assistance needed to develop comprehensive safety practices in the workplace. It will also recognize successful employer-employee joint safety programs, which result in the achievement of safety excellence.