In this webinar, learn the three essential approaches to prioritize existing resources to maximize efficiency, establish better visibility across your factory, and make better, more proactive decisions.

1. Beyond Compliance
Webinar & Podcast Series for Process Manufacturers
You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See:
Three Ways to Shine the Light
on Optimizing Operations
Matt Snider
Continuous Improvement Consultant and Success Coach

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3. Casual but Professional Format
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Before We Get Started
BEYOND COMPLIANCE
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4. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Meet the Speaker:
● Managed Quality and Food Safety programs for mid-sized
beef, pork, and poultry processors (CRF, Westin Foods)
● Operational and Analytical roles at Westin Foods
● Quality and Engineering roles for Airlite Plastics
● Operations/Leadership roles at National Deli and Colorado
Premium
● Continuous Improvement consultant
Matt Snider
Continuous Improvement Consultant and Success Coach

5. Poll Question 1
Are you able to tell me how your operation is performing - Without leaving your chair?

6. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Objectives:
Session Overview
● Understand challenges preventing continuous improvement
● Understand impact of misusing resources
● Develop a smart approach to operationalize efficiencies

7. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Continuous Improvement: Challenges
Lack of real-time visibility and understanding of the current state
Low number of properly trained workers and/or high turnover of labor
Not able to effectively prioritize existing resources
Reliant on outdated processes

8. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Continuous Improvement: Challenges
Lack of real-time visibility and understanding of the current state…
How are we
capturing data?
How are we
viewing downtime?
What’s REALLY
happening on
each line?
What is the capacity
of my resources?

9. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Continuous Improvement: Challenges
Low number of properly trained workers and/or high turnover of labor
● Limited number of skilled workers
who are in high demand
● Tough working conditions, longer
hours, repetitive tasks make it hard
to retain operators

10. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Continuous Improvement: Challenges
● Specially trained employees are
often handling who is “screaming
the loudest”
● Manual processes with limited
staff are more prone to errors
Not able to effectively prioritize existing resources

11. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Continuous Improvement: Challenges
● Manually gathering line data
delays analysis and ability to
quickly addressing potential errors
● Who is accountable should the
line go down, and what steps
should be taken to minimize
downtime?
● Detect and address inconsistent
line data
Reliant on outdated processes

12. Do you know (right now) the #1 reason for downtime on your highest volume line?
Poll Question 2

13. BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Collect machine data and process steps through APIs and digital forms
Remove manual processes for data collection and verification
Meaningful dashboards and alerts help to understand the current
state in real-time
Detect trends and build mechanisms for proactively identifying issues
Align teams on prioritization, process, response, and ownership
Continuous Improvement: Steps to Operationalize Efficiency
Data Capture
Automate
Visualize
Analyze
Operationalize

14. Questions?
BEYOND COMPLIANCE
Matt Snider
Continuous Improvement
Consultant & Success Coach

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