Formative assessment $2$ a

$58$ marks available, learner to achieve at least $45/58$ to meet required level of competency.

PART $1$: Attend a talk by a member of senior management, in which they will show you company reports and explain to you what quanttative measures of productivity are used in your organisation, you should find out how the data is collected, and exactly how the measures are calculated.

PART $2$: Use genuine production figures together with relevant information on production inputs and outputs carry out a quantitative productivity study on your own work station.

i$.$ Create a checklist of all quantifable productivity factors that should be analysed, and of the production data you will require in order to measure productivity. $(4$ marks$)$ ii$.$ Obtain all relevant data, and perform productivity calculations as demonstrated to you in the talk in Part $1$ of this exercise. Show your workings clearly and try and present your results in the same way senior management do in company reports. $(20$ marks$)$

Wi$.$ Apply each of the different metrics you have learnt in this chapter to the analysis of productivity in your work station, ensure you show all your workings clearly. You thould include the following:

Cary out a time motion study to determine output in your workstation in standard hours $(4$ marks$)$

Two different measures of single factor productivity $(4$ marks$)$

Two different measures of multifactor productivity $(6$ marks$)$

OEEP $(8$ marks$)$

TEEP $(4$ marks$)$

Three different measures of efficiency $($must include overall work station efficiency$)(6$ marks$)$

Capacity $(2$ marks$)$

Iv List what you beleve to be the causes of the current levels of labour, capital and materiat productivity in your work place, try and think of at least $4$ causes for each production factor $(12$ marks$)$