The document discusses tools for managing skill gaps in the workplace. It describes skill matrix/inventory as a record of employees' past performance on various tasks, typically shown as efficiency percentages. Maintaining up-to-date skill matrix records allows management to efficiently select employees for tasks and plan operations based on skill levels. Advanced tools now use sensors and real-time data to automatically monitor performance and update skill matrix information.

1. Simple Tools To Manage Skill
Gaps
The LOOP Initiative

2. Takeaways from this submodule
Skill
availability
recordkeeping
01
Benefits
02
Advanced
methods
03

3. Skill Availability Recordkeeping

4. Skill Matrix
Skill Matrix, or skill inventory, is a record of past
performances of operators on various operations.
Typically the records are kept in form of efficiency
percentage.
For practical use, skill matrix needs to be kept updated
regularly.

5. Benefits of Management efficiency
Keep records of efficiency levels of all operators
and all operations.
Reduce time required in finding and selecting
operators for an operation.
Management of skill gap due to absenteeism or
attrition by finding suitable replacement.

6. Benefits in operations planning
Required for optimal line balancing by selecting operators as per
requirement.
If an operation requires 60% of pitch time, then identify pool of
operators with efficiency level around 60% on that particular operation.
Assists in planning for operation clubbing and quickly deciding which
operations can be given to a particular operator.

7. Components of a basic tool
Date of data
entry
Operator
identification
Operation
name
Machine
name
Operator
efficiency on
the operation

8. Commonly found parameters in skill matrix
Date of data
entry
Operator
identification
Style number
Production
quantity
Machine
name
Operations
Complexity
indicator
Operation
name
Total hours
worked
Operator
efficiency on
the operation

9. Common challenges encountered
Wide variation in efficiency on different dates and styles
Lower efficiency due to external factors such as lost time, line
setting, no feeding etc.
Operators working on multiple operations in same day.
Keeping records updated on regular basis is time consuming
task.

10. Auto updated data with real time monitoring
Modern tools use sensors to monitor machine utilization and
capture needle time efficiency of operators.
Data automatically updated and is always current.
Tools automatically perform analysis of variance of efficiency,
filtering of abnormal data and provide ranges.
When linked with the attendance system, can automatically
perform the search operations and make suggestions.

11. Thank you
Trainer: Sandeep Raghuwanshi