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                    A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.   Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life .   Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.              When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that  is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyei...

  Productivity Improvement for chemical plant - Experience based To effectively run a chemical plant, focusing on productivity is a vital role playing activity. This will improve the RM to finished good conversion cost effectively. There are few key points which needs focus to improve plant productivity. Time & Motion study. : TMS is the tools for primary activity for each productivity improvement in chemical plant. This will help to understand the GAP through out the conversion process from RM to FG. Once the gap is identified follow the 2nd next step i.e PDCA cycle. PDCA cycle:   PDCA is known as Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Once gap is identified planning need to be done among the team member to debottleneck the gap. Prepared the list of plan with action to going forward. Once plan is ready pick up one plan which weightage you think is high & implement in process. This is called DO. While the action is being continue in process  check the each process stage paramet...