The first day of TRSA’s recent Production Summit in Pittsburgh was dedicated entirely to education, with three morning sessions addressing topics ranging from setting production standards and plant safety, to employee recruiting and retention. 
 
Chip Malboeuf, president, Turn-Key Industrial Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, kicked off the Oct. 14-15 summit with an in-depth discussion on setting standards for your plant’s production staff. In order to measure employee and machine performance, companies use the following types of standards:
 

• Engineered standards – methods and time studies performed by an industrial engineer
   
• Industry standards – ...