Productivity: Measurements And Metrics
Measurements are vital to understanding and optimizing productivity in a laundry. The leader in industrial engineering, W. Edwards Deming summed it up best, saying, “Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.”
Some examples of key production indicators (KPIs) or measurements for laundry production operations are inventory cost, gallons per pound and pieces per hour. These measures are important to understand our costs relating to linen, uniform and facility services companies. When trying to understand our productivity and capacity of production operations, there is nothing more important than pounds per operator hour (PPOH).
Pounds per operator hour is normally ...
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