Labor shortages. Supply chain problems. Epidemics. Extreme weather. Demands for flex-time. Staff scheduling is a growing challenge for manufacturers struggling to improve productivity with a reduced workforce. Staffing decisions are critical to the bottom line, especially in high touch, high mix operations with many frontline employees, frequent product turnover, and extensive customization.
Leela Platform delivers the timely information you need to reduce wasteful overstaffing with AI-powered line balancing. Leela can also help avoid understaffing, which often leads to lower capacity, increased lead time, quality control problems, safety risks, and profit-killing overtime.
Our visual intelligence software helps to inform managerial hiring and scheduling decisions, and in larger operations, augment HR and team scheduling software with a real-time reality check on workflow. If employees call in sick or there is a sudden supply deficit or rush order, Leela is ready with a bird’s-eye view of how well your staffing plan is working and how to improve line balancing.
Leela Platform’s visual process inspection reports help to quickly spot new bottlenecks, enabling managers to redeploy frontline workers within minutes instead of days. For example, if the Leela Viewer KPI dashboard indicates that non-value add time has increased significantly on one workstation, it might reveal an overstaffing problem caused by understaffing earlier on the line.
Redeploying staff on the fly can lead to mismatches such as employees who are undertrained or unsuited for a particular task. Leela’s continuous metrics and comparative analyses can better inform corrective action management decisions about who fills in where, as well as when and where training is needed most. The solution is particularly useful for operations and shifts where shop floor management is spread thin.
