Manufacturing Leadership Series: Productivity

Considering its economic performance has fared better than most other markets, Canadian business owners can’t afford to overlook productivity lapses.

February 2, 2012
Mike Ouellette

This report contains research and tactics that can help. All you have to do is start reading.

The Starting Point

Canada’s Productivity Paradox Considering its economic performance has fared better than most other markets, Canadian business owners can’t afford to overlook productivity lapses.

Leadership and Management

Effective productivity pick-me-ups

Common productivity misfires

Three cheap steps to a productive plant

R&D spending trending up for 2012

Visit Ecoair’s website to: Learn how Ecoair cut particle counts at a job shop by 40%

Learn how Ecoair cut energy use by 30% at an 18,000-sq.ft. warehouse

How Ecoair saved Maple Leaf Foods four hours a day

Insights, Strategy and Opportunity
Tax Credits Learn what percentage of your peers leverage the SR&D tax credit.	Investing in Machinery Who bought productivity-enhancing gear in 2011 compared to 2010	Productivity rankings The most popular productivity enhancements, ranked

The Productivity Reader

•The Value of Productivity •Sluggish Productivity Growth Cost You $7,500 •Working Out The Bottom Line

•Up Productivity on the cheap •Automate Your Automation •Want Productivity Gains? Invest in Literacy

•A Question of Productivity •Epic Productivity Failures Threaten Prosperity •Removing Design Bottlenecks

Productivity Defined

•Six Sigma •Kaizen •Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) •5 S

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