Tools for Manufacturing Daily Stand Up Meetings

Having regular and effective daily management is one of the key things to make sure that you hit your manufacturing goals and achieve your production target –  weekly, monthly and quarterly.

Within daily management, one of the first things you can do at the start of the shift is a daily stand up meeting. That’s where everyone down their tools for five to ten minutes and get together to review what’s happening today in the manufacturing plant.

It’s a great way of getting everyone involved in the decision-making process. And also, to make sure that everyone’s on track to help achieve the goals that you’ve set.

So what’s the agenda for a daily stand up meeting for the manufacturing plant?

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Manufacturing Daily Stand Up Agenda

Here is our agenda for manufacturing daily stand up meetings

1. Yesterdays Results

Covering the results of yesterday and any follow up actions.

If you reached or exceeded your targets – celebrate!

If you didn’t reach your production target yesterday, why not? Is it something we can resolve today?

2. Today’s Goals

What are today’s goals and highlight any unusual or high priority orders that are coming through today that need to be handled slightly differently or expedited.

3. Review Current Status

Then going on to a review of the current work in process.

So have a look if everything that’s in process or on track to be delivered on time to customers.

If not, is there anything that needs doing to support the production workers to get those delivered on time.

4. Any Other Business

That’s the main part of the meeting done.

After that, it can be any events coming up, any important business events that are happening, or customer visits.

After that you’re done, everyone goes back to their work and work the plan that you’ve just planned out. This meeting should take around 15 minutes maximum.

Come Prepared

One of the things that’s really important is to have good data – to have all your numbers and all the information coming into that meeting first thing in the morning.

That’s one of the areas that we can help.

We’ve developed features into our manufacturing execution system Tascus to make sure that when you come to do a daily stand up meeting, there are dashboards available that give you all of that data immediately. You can stand around that in the meeting, rather than having to prepare information before coming into the meeting.

Tascus Features to Make Daily Standups Easier

This is one of the tools that we have to help those daily stand up meetings.

It’s our Tascus work in progress report, that gives you a live update straight from the shop floor. Where every order that’s a work in progress or completed is, for the current day, week, month and quarter.

Final Thoughts

It’s tools like this that can help you. It means less upfront preparation at the meetings. It’s more about just standing around a dashboard like this and being able to pick out the high priority things that your team need to work on for the rest of the day.