Jonathan Furniss

Consultant

Bio

Jonathan has over a decade of hands-on lean manufacturing experience, implementing and coaching at all levels across a wide range of industries and understands the universal manufacturing challenges faced by large organisations and SME’s. Having held roles in running capital projects, quality, technical and operations he has a wide breadth of experience working within businesses and understands the needs and drivers of the key stake holders. Jonathan works directly with the manufacturing teams to drive performance and accountability resulting in engaged teams capable of delivering results. Jonathan has a proven track record of bringing automation and world leading technologies into NZ businesses, driven by his passion for working smarter not harder. He is committed to help NZ businesses capture the competitive advantages of Industry 4.0 and has experience on balancing the benefits of new technology against the risks. His experience also lends itself to management of the current asset base ensuring optimal utilisation of assets.
Industry Program Experience
• Manufacturing
• FMCG
• Food packaging
• Coating application
• Construction industry materials
Expertise
• Process throughput improvement
• Process quality improvement
• Process waste reduction
• Process automation
• Hands on coaching and development of teams
• Complex problem solving
• Asset reliability programs

Complete the questions below to test your data maturity.

Over the next two years, which three of the 14 key performance indicators do you most want to improve on as a business?

Make a note of these before you carry on reading.

The key 14 performance indicator categories:

Productivity

  • Asset & equipment efficiency
  • Inventory efficiency
  • Materials efficiency
  • Utilities efficiency
  • Workforce efficiency

Flexibility

  • Planning & scheduling effectiveness
  • Production flexibility
  • Workforce flexibility

Speed

  • Time to market
  • Time to delivery

Quality

  • Product quality
  • Process quality
  • Safety
  • Security

Now ask yourself – what is your current performance against these three KPIs? Can you tell me how you performed in the last hour, yesterday or last week?

If you can’t answer this question for all three because you aren’t measuring the data, then the next step is clear. Figure out what data you need to enable you to measure it, and decide how you are going to collect that data.

If you can answer it historically; last week or last month – ask yourself, is this retrospective view sufficient for me to really make improvements?

If you can answer it for all three up to the minute, then it is quite possible that shopfloor intelligence isn’t a number one priority for you. Look out for parts 2 and 3 of this blog series for some more insights into how you can make the data work for you.