Disseminating knowledge related to productivity and quality: General overview of Productivity

Post by: Trương Vân - Post date: Saturday, Aug 24, 2024 | 0:10 - View count: 279

Within the framework of the Program to support the establishment of Productivity Club for students at universities and colleges, on August 23, 2024, Commission for the Standards, Metrology and Quality (STAMEQ) organized a virtual training session with the theme “General overview of Productivity.” Ms. Tran Hai Ninh, LLm, Secretary of STAMEQ Youth Union, was the speaker for the session.

Attending the virtual training session were Mr. Pham Le Cuong – Deputy Chief of STAMEQ Office and nearly 100 lectures, students from 15 universities, colleges and members of STAMEQ Youth Union.

At the training session, Ms. Ninh presented three basic topics, including the history of productivity, factors determining productivity, and an introduction to tools and initiatives to improve productivity. Ms. Ninh explained that according to the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), productivity is the relationship between the quantity of output (goods and services produced) and the quantity of input (i.e., resources such as labor, materials, machinery, and energy) used in production. Simply put, “productivity is optimizing output and minimizing input.”

In addition to external factors, including government policies, economic-social conditions, and political institutions, business environment, etc., that affect productivity and the decision-making processes of enterprises but are beyond their control, there are also internal factors that are under the control of enterprises. Specifically, these include the 4M1E1I framework: Man, Method, Material, Machine, Environment, and Information.

Analyzing the factors that determine productivity, Ms. Ninh noted: The Man factor includes abilities, skills, qualifications, awareness, work attitude, innovative thinking, level of training, and health and safety at work. Method factors include processes, production techniques, ways of performing work, improving and innovating methods, and eliminating waste. Materials include the quality of raw materials, their origin and source, and the testing and evaluation of raw material quality. Machine factors include the condition, accuracy, and efficiency of machinery, level of automation, and maintenance and servicing of equipment. The environment includes factors related to the working environment, safety and environmental protection, institutions, sustainability, and the establishment of a productivity movement. Information is also a critical factor, especially in the current context of digital transformation, with a particular emphasis on the role of communication and information in data analysis and processing. Inclusion, the Man factor is the most important and accessible factor, achievable through learning and training.

The virtual training session kept attendees engaged and received lots of interesting questions and all questions have been satisfactorily answered.

It can be said that the success of today’s training session is an essential premise for the following topics. From there, it will provide students of colleges and universities across the country with basic knowledge about productivity while aiming for a higher goal of improving thinking about productivity and turning thinking into action.

The “Overview of Productivity” training session is the first in a series of 10 training sessions on productivity improvement presented by the STAMEQ Youth Union’s trainers, including 5S, TWI, 7 Wastes, Kaizen, Lean, QCC, MFCA, TPM, KPI.

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