What according to you is a ‘Super Shopfloor'?
A Super Shopfloor is a set-up that makes effective utilisation of available resources (i.e. Man, Machine, and Material). This comprises of facilities like visual display on the shopfloor, clear aisles (Gangways), performance tracking of the plant, automation, adequate illumination, use of material handling equipment and implementation of lean concepts like 5S, Kanban, Single piece flow, JIT for driving the continuous improvement activity and so on.

How does a ‘Super Shopfloor' manage cost?
It ensures effective resource deployment and management which in turn assists in managing cost. It highlights the systems and processes which are cost effective and the one which are costly so that necessary improvements can be made in the same. Data tracking is very efficient which is the start point of any change or revolution.

What role do ‘people' play in powering a ‘Super Shopfloor'?
People are the end users of anything that happens on the shop as it affects them directly whether they adapt it or not. Effective sustenance of any change lies in the hands of the people so their involvement plays an important role in the success of implementation of Super Shopfloor. They should be intolerant towards the non-standard activities against the concepts of lean which helps in successful sustenance of any change.

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