Work Instruction Software: Improving Business Efficiency and Productivity

by Comprose Inc SOP Management

The way technology has greatly impacted, as well as improved businesses (especially manufacturing and industrial) over the past few decades is amazing. For instance, the emergence of work instructions. What once used to be a laminated and printed list of instructions created by managers and supervisors for floor workers has changed into a highly interactive process. Given the significance of work instruction software, leading players are investing in it to ensure business efficiency and productivity.

Apart from this, electronic work instructions have improved the way operators and supervisors develop products, and the way they work along with engineers and people indulged in maintenance. This technology paves way for a system that is centralized, consistent, and computerized document management system, and is utilized by most modern manufacturing firms to standardize their processes.

Listed below are the benefits of WI’s for improving shop-floor operations:

Reduced Downtime: As a matter of fact, communication with an electronic routing system is easy and less time consuming when it comes to maintenance actions or creating engineering change orders (ECOs).
Better Communication: A standardized, automated and centralized document management system enables better ability to share documents within a business environment, between different functional units and across facilities. This allows for stronger and better communication, which can result in fewer errors.
Reduced Wastage: The ability to correspond and work in partnership with engineering teams more efficiently helps improve quality while reduce wastage.
Easier Announcement of Regulatory Changes: Since, the regulatory environments is dynamic in several industries EWIs help communicating modifications required for different floor processes while authenticating that employees are well aware of the changes and are actually following them.
Quick New Product Prologue Process: Reorganizing collaboration and communication between the engineering team and the manufacturing department trims down the time required for creating, testing and building new products.
Improved Efficiency and Reduced Risk: The possibility of non-conformance or compliance much lower due to the automatic notifications triggered for engineering, as well as shop floor resources.

These are some of the benefits of moving from a paper-based list of instructions to electronic work instructions (EWIs).