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FIGURE 1

CURRENT SUPPLIED ART FLOW

Consider the review of an average
screen printer's art department. Say
an owner does a quick analysis on how
much work can be done in a day. The
typical result of this will provide a snapshot of how many jobs each artist is
capable of in the given times. If there are
three artists, the average between them
might be six jobs per day. One of these
artists, however, consistently completes
nine jobs per day, while the other two
do five. At this point the owner might
decide the problem lies in the two artists
who are working too slowly. But there's
likely a deeper story. In fact, there could
be a whole collection of reasons this
situation has unfolded in the art department. Some possibilities could be:
* The artist who gets a lot more jobs
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done is actually the least talented of
the group, so he takes the simpler
jobs and the other two artists take
on the more difficult ones.
* The artist who gets more done has a
superior computer and support tools.
* The artist who is faster has had more
training than the others.
* The faster artist has been at the
company for years and the other two
are relatively new.
* The artist who accomplishes more has
some inside knowledge about systems
in the company and doesn't share
this with the other artists, so they are
forced to use slower methods.
* One of the artists completes the
other two's production half of the
time, so this increases her results in
final numbers.
The actual truth could be a combination of these or a dozen we haven't even
considered. So, the critical part of doing
a quality analysis of any part of a company is to get a "dimensional" picture
from several perspectives, and to make
sure the review is deeper than just surface level. If each artist was interviewed
about the type of work they do, their
process, and how they feel about their
productivity, it's more likely a clear picture could be defined and consequently
used to make some useful decisions on
how to improve overall output.
In any event, no matter what information is obtained during the analysis stage,
it's important to refrain from making any



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