{"id":44528,"date":"2017-12-14T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/continuous-improvement-vital-to-our-processes"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:29:50","slug":"continuous-improvement-vital-to-our-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/general-interest\/continuous-improvement-vital-to-our-processes","title":{"rendered":"Continuous improvement: vital to our processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; font-style:italic\">With the contribution of Marilyne Barbey,&nbsp;Innovation Engineer<\/p>\n<h3>Partnership with Inno-Centre<\/h3>\n<p>With the creation of the innovation department in 2017, AGF Group made a commitment to ensuring its continued existence through the continuous improvement of its processes.<\/p>\n<p>To support this goal, we are fortunate to have a total of 250 hours of support from the experts at Inno-centre Group, which works with companies to support organizational innovation projects and processes.<\/p>\n<h3>First step: the value chain<\/h3>\n<p>An initial workshop with Inno-centre took place on December 6, with 26 participants from all AGF-Longueuil departments. The aim of this workshop was to do a value-chain mapping, a visual tool helps us examine the process we will be working on from all sides.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20171206_115552-4.jpg\" style=\"height:338px; width:450px\" title=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, we divided up the processes within the different departments to identify what was working well, along with any challenges and irritants. Each step was analyzed: from the business plan to invoicing and performance review, as well as detailing, production, transport and installation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>By discussing potential opportunities for improvement, we defined our priorities, including quick wins.<\/p>\n<h3>What we took away from this exercise:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimization of processes<\/li>\n<li>Solutions proposed by teams for each department<\/li>\n<li>Elimination of tasks with no added value<\/li>\n<li>Boost to the performance of our plants and internal services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What&rsquo;s next?<\/h3>\n<p>Following this first meeting, Inno-centre&rsquo;s experts will categorize the various improvements identified during the workshop. On January 11, 2018, they will present their report to us. They will help us categorize activities so we can identify the major areas for improvement. An action plan will be proposed for each one, along with the assignment of tasks within departments and deadlines to be respected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tableau-4.jpg\" style=\"height:400px; width:300px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The Innovation department will be responsible for follow-up on these actions and will conduct in-depth studies as needed, to support the teams at every stage of the improvement process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ligne_bleue_separation_version_e-2059.jpg\" style=\"height:67px; width:400px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2>La mejora continua al centro de nuestros procedimientos<\/h2>\n<h3>Asociaci&oacute;n con Inno-centre<\/h3>\n<p>Con la creaci&oacute;n del Departamento de Innovaci&oacute;n en el 2017, el Grupo AGF se ha comprometido a garantizar la perpetuidad de la organizaci&oacute;n por medio de la mejora continua de sus procedimientos.<\/p>\n<p>Para alcanzar este objetivo, tenemos la suerte de poder contar con el apoyo de expertos del grupo Inno-centre por un total de 250 horas. Este organismo al servicio de empresas acompa&ntilde;a los proyectos de innovaci&oacute;n organizacional y de los procedimientos.<\/p>\n<h3>Primera etapa: la cadena de valores<\/h3>\n<p>El 6 de diciembre se realiz&oacute; el primer taller con ellos y se reunieron 26 participantes de todos los departamentos de AGF Longueuil. Este encuentro ten&iacute;a como fin realizar una &ldquo;cartograf&iacute;a de la cadena de valores&rdquo;: una herramienta visual que permite examinar detalladamente el procedimiento con el que vamos a trabajar.<\/p>\n<p>En otras palabras, seccionamos los procedimientos de los diferentes departamentos para identificar lo que funciona bien, los desaf&iacute;os y las contrariedades. Se analiz&oacute; cada etapa: desde el plan de negocios hasta la facturaci&oacute;n y la evaluaci&oacute;n del rendimiento, hasta el detallado, la producci&oacute;n, el transporte, la instalaci&oacute;n, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Gracias a los intercambios sobre las oportunidades de mejora potenciales, pudimos definir las prioridades, incluyendo los &ldquo;resultados r&aacute;pidos&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<h3>Lo que obtuvimos con este ejercicio: &nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimizaci&oacute;n de procedimientos<\/li>\n<li>Propuestas de soluciones de los equipos de cada departamento<\/li>\n<li>Eliminaci&oacute;n de tareas sin valor a&ntilde;adido<\/li>\n<li>Incremento del rendimiento de nuestras f&aacute;bricas y de nuestros servicios internos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&iquest;Y a continuaci&oacute;n?<\/h3>\n<p>Despu&eacute;s del primer encuentro, los expertos de Inno-centre van a clasificar las diferentes mejoras recolectadas durante el taller. El 11 de enero de 2018 vendr&aacute;n a presentarnos su informe. Nos ayudar&aacute;n a realizar reagrupaciones de actividades para que podamos identificar los grandes ejes de las mejoras a realizar. Para cada eje, se propondr&aacute; un plan de acci&oacute;n, as&iacute; como una repartici&oacute;n de tareas en cada departamento y los plazos que hay que respetar.<\/p>\n<p>El Departamento de Innovaci&oacute;n ser&aacute; responsable de asegurarse del seguimiento de la realizaci&oacute;n de estas acciones y realizar&aacute; estudios exhaustivos si es necesario, para apoyar a los equipos en todas las fases del proceso de mejora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the contribution of Marilyne Barbey,&nbsp;Innovation Engineer Partnership with Inno-Centre With the creation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-innovation-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57230,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528\/revisions\/57230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}