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NLE 2020 kicks off with a Training of Trainers
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Ebène, 10
March, 2020: The second edition of the National Leadership Engine (NLE) project
kicked off on Friday 28 February at the NPCC with a Training of Trainers as the
first in the series of activities intended to bring this national initiative
towards its objective of building leadership capabilities among youth in
Mauritius. Some 30
individuals, comprising of Youth Officers of the Ministry of Youth Empowerment,
Sports and Recreation and former NLE participants were convened on Friday 28 and
Saturday 29 February at the NPCC for a refresher course on leadership. The
former NLE participants are actually coming back in the project as co-trainers
to coach new participants.“As the ...
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NPCC unveils InnovEd 2020
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Ebène, 05
February, 2020: The National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC)
launched today the latest edition of InnovEd, an initiative aimed at promoting
and instilling creative, critical and innovative thinking among students.Secondary
schools are presently being invited to participate in InnovEd 2020, which will
again build on the theory of Multiple Intelligences along with themes targeting
the creative industries. The themes are Interactive Media, Cultural Heritage, Performing
Arts, Visual Arts and Craft, Design and Languages and Publishing. Students will
have up to 17 February to register. “InnovEd is an important initiative that aims
at honing the innovative ...
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Productivity Tools
5S, 7W, QC, ESS, IE, commonly known as KAIZEN tools, are foundations for productivity improvement. With these basic tools a company can become both effective and efficient. Kaizen means continuous improvement in quality, technology, process, company culture, productivity and leadership. It comes from the Japanese word “Kai” which means “change” or to “correct” and “zen” which means “good”. The word Kaizen means “continuous improvement”.
5S: Quality Environment
5S is a basic, fundamental, systematic approach for productivity, quality and safety improvement in all types of business. It is a system to reduce waste and optimize productivity through maintaining an orderly, clean and disciplined workplace and using visual cues to achieve more consistent operational results.
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7W: 7 Wastes
7W or 7 Wastes, is an approach to increase productivity by identifying and eliminating different type of waste in the environment.
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QC: Quality Circle
Quality circle is a permanent group of 4 to 10 employees from the same department having common objective to solve work-related problems by applying simple problem-solving tools. Problems can be either assigned or identified by the team themselves.
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ESS: Employee Suggestion Scheme
Employee Suggestion Scheme is a systematic approach to solicit creative ideas for improvement. The objectives of suggestion scheme are to establish a strong flow of two-way communication between management and employees and to improve productivity and quality of products and services of the organisation.
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IE: Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering (IE) is concerned with design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to predict and evaluate result to be obtained from such systems.
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ISO 9001:2015
ISO 9000 is a series of standards, developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), that define, establish, and maintain an effective quality assurance system for manufacturing and service industries.
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QRS: Quick Response System
QR is a management concept created to increase consumer satisfaction and survive increasing competition from new competitors. It intends to shorten the lead time from receiving an order to delivery of the products and increase the cash flow.
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JIT: Just In Time
JIT is a management philosophy of continuous improvement and forced problem solving. Supplies and components in the production line are ‘pulled’ through the system to arrive where they are need when they are needed.
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TPM: Total Productive Maintenance
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) is a holistic approach to equipment maintenance that strives to achieve perfect production.
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TQM: Total Quality Management
Total quality management can be summarized as a management system for a customer-focused organization that involves all employees in continual improvement. It uses strategy, data, and effective communications to integrate the quality discipline into the culture and activities of the organization.
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GP: Green Productivity
Green Productivity (GP) is a strategy for simultaneously enhancing productivity and environmental performance for overall socio-economic development that leads to sustained improvement in the quality of human life.
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ECO Efficiency
Eco-efficiency is based on the withstanding principles of the use of high efficiency production technology and methods, the use of less natural resources and energy for the same amount of production and the production of less waste.
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ISO 14000
ISO 14000 is a family of standards related to environmental management that exists to help organizations minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e., cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); comply with applicable laws, regulations...
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Lean Management
Lean Management helps organization to achieve targeted productivity and more by introduction of easy-to-apply and maintainable techniques and tools.
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E2: Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency is "using less energy to provide the same service". There are other definitions, but this is a good operational one.
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P2: Pollution Prevention
In contrast to most pollution control strategies, which seek to manage a pollutant after it is formed and reduce its impact upon the environment, the pollution prevention approach seeks to increase the efficiency of a process, thereby reducing the amount of pollution generated at its source.
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Productivity Analysis Questionnaire
Productivity measurement is basically a process of identifying the appropriate measures or metrics to be used, and the computation of their results to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the resources used.
Basically, productivity = output / input. Thus, measurement of both the output and input, using the productivity levers, are keys to enhancing productivity.
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