Performance management for Electric Motor Manufacturers: winding quality and returns, not only the count
Winders work to a daily count, which pushes speed over finish. Performance measures that include test rejects and returns reward the winders whose motors run quietly and stay in service.
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When the daily count is the only number on the board, winders rush. Coils are loose, varnish is uneven and the balancing team pays for it with extra correction. Returns from customers show up months later and nobody links them to a person or a batch. The careful winder, who works slower but produces motors that run for years, is quietly treated as the weaker hand.
Good looks like a small board with three numbers per team: count, motors rejected at test and returns traced to the batch. Reviews are short, held every quarter, and use those numbers with the winder's own account of what happened. Returns are traced back to a batch and discussed with the team without blame.
How to set it up
1. Choose three measures
Pick count, rejects at final test and returns traced to a batch. For balancers, pick correction weights used and re-balancing counts. Keep measures within what each person controls.
2. Link each motor to a batch and a team
Mark batches or use the job card so a returned motor can be traced to the week and the winding team. Without this link, quality measures turn into guesses.
3. Show the numbers weekly
Put the three numbers on a board near the winding area. Look at them with the team once a week for five minutes, and ask what slowed or helped them.
4. Hold a quarterly review
Meet each winder and each test technician for fifteen minutes. Review the numbers, ask what they need and agree one improvement. A performance management routine can set this up.
5. Tie recognition to quality
Reward teams that keep rejects and returns low, not only those with the highest count. Explain the link in plain words and keep the reward small but regular.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Take ten returned motors and see how many can be traced to a batch or winding team.
- Compare the count of your fastest winder with his rejects at final test.
- Ask balancing staff which winding teams send them the most corrections.
- Check when each winder last had a conversation about his work beyond the daily count.
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Questions owners ask
Say clearly what the measure is and how it is used, and start with discussion before any link to pay. Show the numbers openly so people see they are fair, and use them first to remove causes.
Look at how fast they trace a return to a cause and how often their finding leads to a change on the floor. A report that nobody reads is not a result, so follow up on each finding.
Avoid public ranking. It encourages hiding errors. Compare each winder with his own record over time, and use a team board to show shared results.