People in
maintenance environments depend on a wide variety of tools and products to get
their job completed on time. This array of tools required coupled with the
increasing requirements and reduced manpower in today’s workplace pushes a
necessary gain in productivity per maintenance employee.
The
challenge is finding ways to increase productivity, purchasing the right tools
for the job is one way of increasing productivity, another is utilizing custom tool foam inserts.
Every minute
a maintenance worker spends searching for a misplaced tool is a wasted minute.
It is not uncommon for a worker to spend five or more minutes trying to find a
tool, it is also not uncommon for a worker to travel to a jobsite on the
facility to discover a tool he thought he had was not actually on his cart.
By using
tool foam purchased in tool foam sheets or having it custom cut to his specific requirements enables the
worker to have “at a glance” assurance that he has the tools needed to complete
his task.
Consider
this analysis, if the employee’s burden labor rate is $50 dollars per hour and
he spends $5 minutes looking for tools for each task, that equates to $4.16 in
additional cost. If that employee completes five tasks per day, the total daily
cost of searching for tools is $20.83. In a five day work week it costs $104.16
which equates to $416.66 per month per employee and $5000 dollars per year per
employee in lost productivity.
