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| Thursday, 23 October 2003 |
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Training on Productivity Improvement Techniques to make Lankan enterprises more competitive The SLAAQP has organised a full day seminar/workshop on productivity concepts and techniques for manufacturing enterprises on November 1 at the Trans Asia Hotel. With export industries feeling the pinch with the Sri Lanka rupee appreciating, and domestic industries facing competition from imported products at cheaper prices, productivity improvement is the answer. Although productivity improvement techniques became widely used in the developed world method study, ergonomics, principles of motion economy and work balancing, such techniques were slow to take root in Sri Lanka. Many industrial concerns still do not practise them. To some extent it is only the garments industry that uses such techniques and which have dedicated Work Study officers or Industrial Engineers. Although Sri Lanka joined the Asian Productivity Organisation in the 1960s and set up a specialised National Productivity Organisation, it found that marketing management training and computer training were more lucrative and as a result productivity improvement techniques continued to be known only to a few. Singapore on the other hand made "productivity" a national obsession. Even housewives know what productivity is. Therefore the responsibility of promoting productivity was shared by the government agencies and some non-governmental organisations which consisted of enthusiasts and experts in productivity. |
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