Businesses improve productivity through changing mindsets and innovation

Thanks to changing mindsets and creativity in innovative solutions, many enterprises have enhanced production capacity, improved quality and affirmed their position in the market.

In the steel industry, Posco Company – VSC is a typical in efficiency improvement thanks to creative thinking. With continuous improvement efforts, Posco has held the number 1 position of the title of the most competitive steel company in the world for 9 consecutive years from 2009-2018.

Specifically, the motto “resources are finite, creativity is infinite” has been widely applied from the corporation to all member units. Accordingly, innovative ideas in innovation are exchanged, implementing feasible ideas, project formulation and visual planning. The key to the success of this plan is to clarify decision making and to change the structure.

Applying an intuitive plan helps high-performing jobs, increasing 17% in value jobs, decreasing 21% unexpected jobs, and job satisfaction of labor increasing from 30 to 90%.

Or at Chien Thang Garment Company focuses on promoting technical innovation, creativity in production to bring more efficiency, save costs, save fuel and increase productivity. Some of improvements have been applied and have brought about practical results, such as placing two rib bags on the same base to shorten the time and increase the accuracy when performing. The innovations in the process of sewing the edges of pockets and collars help to make seams more accurate and products of higher quality. The initiative to adjust the tripod and hide the head of product code has eliminated the cutting thread of excess thread and the process of product moving thereby saving time. Initiatives contribute to promoting production, bringing the company’s growth to 15-20% / year.

Thanks to innovation in thinking and creativity in production, Cholimex Food Joint Stock Company has improved its production capacity, increased its capacity to 200% and increased productivity by 20%, benefiting VND 1.5 billion / year. This achievement is thanks to the initiative of double filling machine for replacement products for single filling machine which is labor-intensive, low-factory area and low productivity of skill Le Duc Anh – Deputy Director of Food Processing Factory.  Or other creative initiatives such as designing chili conveyor belts instead of long tables to increase productivity by 300% and reduce transport staff by 10%, improve the Pet bottle drying room to meet the capacity increase demand 20%.

Productivity and Quality Office