Maximizing Efficiency and Reducing Costs

Every successful business, from expansive corporations to local coffee shops, focuses on maximizing efficiency and reducing costs at one time or another. This endeavor can feel never-ending, especially for businesses that must adapt their design and manufacturing processes to accommodate technological advancements. Equipment evolves, costs fluctuate, and times change. If you’re looking to maximize your business’s efficiency, explore DustShield. Our computer enclosures may help you achieve your goals.

Maximizing Efficiency and Reducing Costs

When a process is efficient, it achieves “maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense” (source). Although every business is different, some strategies for maximizing efficiency and reducing costs work for a variety of companies. For example, you may wish to explore the following ideas:

• Create standard processes.
• Simplify procedures.
• Improve the ease of communication between employees.
• Create an inspiring, productive working environment.
• Foster a sense of community.
• Delegate tasks.
• Don’t micromanage.
• Create clear, focused goals.
• Incentivize employees to work hard.
• Eliminate unnecessary or unimportant tasks.
• Spend time training employees well.
• Hold brief, focused meetings.
• Set firm deadlines.

In addition, have you ever heard of the Sino-Japanese word kaizen? A combination of the words kai (change) and zen (good), it simply means, “change for the better.” Japanese speakers use the word much like English speakers use the word “improvement.” However, in the world of business, kaizen has taken on a new meaning, describing a workforce in which everyone – from the CEO to the desk clerks and factory workers – regularly evaluates his or her work and attempts to improve it. Over time, these small changes should result in larger overall improvements.

By training employees in kaizen and teaching them the importance of this way of thinking, you may be able to improve the efficiency of your workplace. All employees should feel a sense of power, as each person must address challenges that arise in his or her own work. And they must decide, typically after consulting coworkers and a manager, whether a change should occur. So long as management is open to addressing more problems, managers and employees are open to change, and everyone agrees to be patient, the kaizen system can work.

How DustShield Can Help

So how can DustShield help your business maximize efficiency? First, with a DustShield computer enclosure, the tools for the job are positioned where the work is getting done. They’re in the middle of the action, not tucked away in an office located far from the actual workstation. Thus, workers don’t have to waste time walking back and forth to it.

In addition, the clean positive air pressure provided by the enclosure will keep your equipment and your employees working. The enclosure creates a clean room around each computer and peripheral, keeping out dangerous contaminants. In providing production-floor protection for mission-critical hardware, the enclosures can minimize downtime and maximize uptime.

Plus, DustShield’s computer enclosures are industrial tough and factory-floor ready, and we offer customer-driven designs and customizations. We can enhance any of our standard enclosures with little increase in cost. So if you’re interested in maximizing efficiency and reducing costs, talk to us. Share your ideas and explain your concerns. Give us drawings if you have them – scribbles on napkins are fine – or simply call us up for a chat. We would be happy to help you find solutions to your concerns. Our veteran team of design and production professionals will send you drawings for customization at no additional cost.

DustShield has an extensive line of enclosures designed to protect LCD monitors, tower and desktop CPUs, and printers. Heavy-duty and delivered completely assembled, our enclosures suit a variety of applications. Whether you work in recycling and waste management, the textile industry, or wastewater treatment, amongst a number of other industries, our enclosures can help keep your equipment running smoothly. To learn more, please contact one of our enclosure specialists toll-free at 800-587-9557 or contact us online.