The Design, Development, and Application of Production Auxiliary Equipment in Productivity Improvement

Abstract

When productivity improvement tools and techniques do not attain critical responsiveness required for productivity improvement to manifest, in particular when production is stimulated to improve production output. Production engineers are required to establish an alternative productivity improvement method that will stimulate an output increase. When traditional productivity improvement methods used to improve production output, fail to achieve the desired goals but instead produce disappointing results. Engineering has to design, develop and apply production auxiliary equipment to stimulate the production process to increase output. The Cooper's stage gates method and the TOC thinking method are applied to innovatively design and develop auxiliary production equipment. This innovative design methodology enables production engineering to design and develop equipment that can is used to stimulate the production process to increase output. The innovation enables production to optimize productivity improvement events. This qualitative research report deliberates on an innovative design methodology that enables a production of auxiliary production equipment using the stage-gate method and the TOC thinking method. The result achieved in the study, is an establishment of an innovative methodology applied to design production auxiliary equipment that can optimize productivity, when applied in productivity improvement events and integrated with work method tools and techniques.