One day Workshop on “Productivity Improvement Techniques for manufacturing and engineering industries”

One Day Workshop on Productivity Improvement Techniques for manufacturing and engineering industries was held on 21 August 2015 at the Chamber Auditorium. The Workshop was conducted by Mr. Sunil G. Wijesinha, a well recognised Corporate Trainer on Productivity.

The contents were Productivity concepts and misconceptions and Competitiveness, Calculating productivity, Explanation of Single factor, Multi factor and Total factor Productivity, Types of Single Factor Productivity; Labour, Material, Energy, and Capital Productivity, Basic strategies for improving productivity and the better management approach, Numerator based and denominator based productivity, Evaluating through cross sectional and trend analysis, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Techniques of improving labour productivity, Measuring non value adding time through Activity Sampling, Basics of Ergonomics, Creating a composite productivity measure for service areas, Prioritising the productivity effort .

The seminar was well attended. Please see photos of the session below.