Good morning all, doing my 5 minutes free writing with prompt - What's the Frequency. Hope you enjoy the story.
Vanessa, the production manager is in the office at 6am, a rare sight in the office as she's well known to be on time. Her presence has given the night shift folks a lot of stress as firstly they are not use to having her so early in the office, secondly she is wearing an angry face thus no one dares to go near her.
So, what's the reason that sent Vanessa so early into the office?
One of the key product production went line stop at 2am this morning due to a machine fault and this is bad as this is suppose to be demonstration product to be send to her key customer for new product introduction and demonstration. All eyes are on this milestone, thus she cannot fail.
She is now drafting up her PowerPoint slides to be presented to the production direction later at the morning meeting at 8am. The standard question to answer is via the 5 Whys,
- Why the line stop - Because one the key heating machine went down
- Why the heating machine went down? - Because the heating element spoilt and unable to replace.
- Why the heating element spoilt and unable to replace - Because it is a overdue replacement and we do not have the parts
- Why replacement overdue and we do not have the part - Because of supply chain is disrupted due to issue over at our supplier end.
Writing till here, Vanessa feels like her head is exploding as this will chain up to a lot of What's the Frequency questioning as what's the frequency of us talking to the supplier? What's the frequency of us triggering review for 2nd source of parts? what's the frequency of our maintenance schedule? The list goes on.
Scheduling and maintaining the frequency for some thing is essential from keeping our running frequency to keep our body fit to the frequency to review our financial health etc. A good way to manage time to set a schedule and for repetitive items to have a frequency schedule.
