Improve quality productivity: Practical experience from point models

The increasingly stringent market demands require Vietnamese businesses to realize the importance of improving quality productivity.

Factors directly affecting productivity in the enterprise

With the economic trend of our country becoming more and more integrated today, improving productivity is a fundamental factor for economic development and growth. Increasingly rigorous market demands, price competition and participation in regional and global value chains require Vietnamese enterprises to be aware of the importance of improving productivity.

This is reflected in the fact that more and more enterprises actively seek and implement solutions to improve productivity, apply scientific and technological advances to production in order to promote labor productivity, improve product quality.

In fact, when enterprises implement improvement projects, optimize the production process according to “traditional” tools such as: Lean / Kaizen; 5S, ISO, etc can improve productivity by 15-20%. The most important thing is the awareness of the need to improve the productivity of the business of the leader, thereby promoting the participation of each individual, the collective of employees of the enterprise itself.

However, according to the director of the Vietnam Institute of Productivity Nguyen Anh Tuan, the factor that directly affects productivity in enterprises now depends on the nature of each industry.

For example, in garment industry conditions, programs to increase labor productivity focus on improving the production process, arranging and arranging more reasonable transfer lines, reducing waste in production; time to improve management skills as well as consciousness from workers themselves factors that are hindering activities to increase labor productivity are weak management, lack of professionalism, workers who lack discipline as well as work industrial room.

For medium and high-tech industries such as plastics, chemicals, mechanics … requiring high-tech workers, there should be specific orientations for technological innovation; there are appropriate solutions to redundancy when enterprises bring automation technology in production. Areas related to exploitation or export depend heavily on fluctuations in prices on the world market … “, Mr. Tuan shared.

Practical experience from the point model

As one of the typical enterprises of Hung Yen province, leading the movement to improve quality productivity, Mr. Nguyen Manh Duc – CEO of Thai Binh Plastic Joint Stock Company said that the company has chosen choose to apply ISO 9001 and 5S model to improve quality productivity.

Sharing about the experience of applying management systems, this improvement tool, Mr. Nguyen Manh Duc said: “When we first approached the 5S method through the press and the media, we just thought of it simply. This method is a way to keep the factory clean like normal daily work. However, after having expert advice, help, sharing enthusiastically from the Directorate for Standards and Quality, we were more aware of the application of 5S methodically, system, deployment for all brothers in the company to implement. Looking back over a year of applying management systems and improvement tools, we found our business has changed a lot. From the factory, the production place has not been neat, beautiful, so far, the arrangement of the work area has been cleaner and more beautiful. Our customers who visited the factory also appreciated our business despite being young but very professional ”.

According to Mr. Duc, when embarking on implementing 5S, if business leaders do not have clear awareness, it is difficult to understand the benefits of applying 5S, it is difficult for this model to succeed. Because then, the workers and employees will lack orientation, do not know what to do and how to do it effectively.

According to Mr. Trinh Ngoc Thao – Deputy General Director of Smart Vietnam Precision Joint Stock Company, to improve and improve quality productivity, his company simultaneously implemented 5S, both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000, etc.

However, according to Mr. Thao, in the process of deploying Smart Vietnam, it also has to go through many difficulties and challenges. One of the difficulties here is the issue of people, personnel issues, how to motivate employees to enjoy work. This problem does not have to be used to solve the problem, if using money will create a very bad habit: Just have many people do. At the core, what is the value that people receive?

However, according to Mr. Thao, there is no difficulty with difficulties to overcome oneself and change one’s perception. For a company, to succeed must change the perception of everyone in the system, of course there must be time.

In Truong Hai – Thaco Motor Company, to develop and become one of the leading units in Vietnam’s automobile industry, management systems, tools to improve productivity and quality as IATF 16949, TPM, Visual Management, 5S … have been applied.

And according to the representative of the company, in the process of applying management systems and tools to apply, the company has met many difficulties, even the lessons of failure due to the implementation just created movement, has not become a driving force for employees in the company. But thanks to the perseverance and the right implementation, the company finally achieved remarkable results.

Productivity and Quality Office