Staff Traing Program
07 November, 2022
What is a Manufacturing Industry?
A production or manufacturing industry, as the name quite suggests is a company engaged in the creation of goods for sale to the end consumer of those commodities. Manufacturing is a process whereby raw materials are transformed into finished goods, by the use of tools, machinery, manual labor, and any other chemical or biological processes. The term not only denotes the processing of unfinished goods, but also refers to handicraft production in small-scale and medium-sized industries such as cupcakes, bakery items, and a variety of other basic goods.
In the Context of the Canadian Economy:
While dominant industries are occupying a gigantic share of the Canadian economy, the manufacturing industry stands paramount, for its huge contribution, more than 10% to the country’s total GDP. Manufacturing is Canada’s linchpin, representing 68% of the merchandise exports.
Reports from the government of Canada reflect how the industry has evolved. Providing 1.7 million permanent, secure and lucrative jobs to the Canadian workforce, a business engaged in the manufacturing business has successfully surpassed other sectors, to remain a vibrant, modernized, and competitive contributor to our economy. Success breeds success- with the production industry's development, it's attracting new investors, high-tech solutions, and people wanting to be a part of this superior sector. The cornerstone of the manufacturing industry is - a motivated workforce. Manufacturers can’t afford to slow down their production process. This means they require a speedy, highly skilled workforce to maintain and boost productivity and profitability. Whatever reason you choose when undergoing onboarding and recruitment practices for your business, you can do it more efficiently when you use a staffing agency.
Patron Career Staffing is a recruitment and staff solutions company that hires talent to streamline your industry practices and maintain production goals. Best of all, we provide production workers, forklift and machine operators, order pickers, and tons of other production roles. Get started with us today and secure a job you have dreamt of! Want to learn more about our manufacturing staffing solutions, tap here.
Top 6 Practices to Optimize your Production Processes
Manufacturers all over Canada are still recovering from the impact and challenges that coronavirus brought along with it, such as:
Deficit labor
Talent gap
Demand supply distortions
Demotivated workforce
Retaining and employing new employees
Lower sales drive
We’ll be looking at the must-know practices to improve and shape your production business and even help you better prepare for the future. Here are exclusively recommended steps from the team of PCS:
1. Examine your current workflows
By analyzing your rate of progress, thoroughly and regularly, you’ll learn to spot problems and outside environmental threats more quickly. By simply putting the right people in the right place you can accelerate your production process. Exhaustive planning, organizing, and controlling of your workforce will put you one step ahead in the game. Check out our Human Resource Planning blog, to know more about its importance and how it can benefit your organization in terms of boosting the scalability of your operations.
2. Switch to updated high-tech processes
In this modernized world, workers no longer want to work with outdated technologies that directly affect their efficiency of work. Consider adopting new, improved machinery or replacing obsolete solutions to suit the need of your people and the business.
3. Ascertain training needs of employees
Engage your employees in active participation in the transformative effect of updated technology. Never leave them behind. Managers must foster an environment of learning in form of training modules to enable previous and new hires to better cope with the latest industry trends. Address their concerns, if any, and provide vestibule training to introduce your workforce to advanced tools and, machinery related to their job.
4. Reduce production waste
To cut down on wastage, your company must contemplate the causes of such waste production. The 7 wastes of lean production can be termed as:
Overproduction/ overrun- is the most obvious type of manufacturing waste.
Over-processing
Defects
Unprocessed inventory
Material defects
Motion wastage
Transportation (minimize it as much as possible)
Light and heavy manufacturing, and fabrication sites shall invest in production waste management solutions to control and tackle this abundant problem.
5. Always Prepare for the unpredictable
Prepare for future uncertainties that may come your way in terms of environmental threats, a decline in production, labor shortage, supply chain issues, increased cost of production, overhaul costs, and other peaks, critical to the success of your business.
6. Access staffing services
Whether you are short on professional, experienced staff to handle your production processes, or you’re stuck on choosing the best fit for the handy role, consider tracing down your nearest staffing agency to fulfil all your HR requirements.
You can use our multi-skilled staffing solutions, best for employers, and job-seekers in the GTA, looking forward to making a career in the manufacturing industry.
Let’sinteract!
PCS’s services are ideal for business leaders, who are looking to step up their operational excellence by saving time, and money on recruiting the best- while we do the job for you. For job-seekers, dedicated to gaining frontline experience in the production industry, can check up on ‘JOB’ section of our website.
