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This point requires specific mention, even if correlated with organization.
In fact, productivity's loss does not always depend on an incoherent process or an improvable organization.
Many times, it depends on external events from the process, which influence work efficiency and that, in the daily
routine become habitual and are no longer discerned.
It is a question of culture or inertia, which induces the staff to take them as a part of the process without trying
to solve them.
When a foreman is questioned about times or standards and he answers: «it depends», that answer hides the situation and the consequent productivity loss.
In order to restore efficiency to the maximum level is necessary to:
Once efficiency is restored to a proper level, it will be possible to recuperate productivity keeping the superfluous costs' reduction or employing releases resources to increase production.
The chart above illustrates this concept: an efficiency improvement releases resources that can be employed to increase the production or can be saved to reduce costs.
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