Sunday, August 8, 2010

Paint Booths are needed within Egypt.

Over the years, I have visited many workshops within Egypt, along with some decent size factories that apply paints by conventional spray methods.Quite often the spray operations are being performed in an open area or just at curbside. With little regard being giving to the effects of the material being sprayed on the environment or for the spray technicians personnel health.

All to often the technicians knowledge base is or was constructed utilizing outdated concepts and ideals.Which were accumulated over the years working within the particular industry sector. Very little of this information historically was documented in any repeatable medium.That the workers could access, recall or use at a later time, in the context of specific work instructions or process control sheets. Which also should detail the necessary reference materials or other related regulations under the laws of Egypt. which are required for use and should be applied under current ISO standards.

I have found it very difficult, to effectively change the manufacturing culture in Egypt within some firms.As many firms only want to make very minimal changes to the established systems which are currently in use.

One company which I recently performed a manufacturing consultation for. Knew that his company operated at a decent profit level on a monthly basis. That his staffing level was just under one hundred employee's.And that the accountants could and would sort out the other details when they were needed through out the year."Nothing" was accessible or being tracked on a current data base!For any of the established norms and metrics which are routinely used for tracking and planning future business needs on an automatic basis.

This specific firm has been in continuous operations for almost forty years.This firm plans to build a new facility within two years and will implement many new controls within its manufacturing facilities.

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