Introduction

Beothic Fish Processors Ltd. was a significant supplier of pelagic fish species in

Newfoundland and Labrador. Regarding this species, capelin advanced by being the

dominant species. The company was founded in 1967 but became operational in 1979. The

company began handling capelin after building a contemporary cold storage facility at

Valleyfield and installing new blast freezers. In 1989, Capelin was the main driver of the

business's overall profitability. The capelin method was created roughly thirty years ago of

which prior the capelin were collected by hand and as such the vast quantities required to

meet the demand were not met.

The real, root problem of this case

In this case, the real issues revolve around Beothic's present production system.

 The company needed to maximize production in a brief and limited season.

 All components of the production system needed to be managed and evaluated for

improvement.

 The production area was very congested with equipment heavily disorganized, and there

is too handling of goods which resulted in high labor costs.

 raw materials losses in the infeed system when capelin fell from the top of the infeed

conveyor and onto the offal collecting conveyor below.

 Too many manual operations for female capelins when pushed to the production tables.

 Issues with a weighing mechanism and system.

 Safety concerns due to poor plant equipment organization.

Recommendation for reorganization.

 Moving the separator closer to the feed hopper on the other side of the room will shorten

the distance, decrease waste, and boost output (King & Stapleton, 1993).

 To avoid the need for physical labor required to arrange the fish on distribution tables, the

table should be moved to the other side of the room, next to the separator, and configured

so that the splitter pushes the fish onto the tables.

 In order to reduce the distance that plates must travel during transport and to avoid the

need for the forklift to pass through employee work areas, the packing stations should be

located on the opposite side of the roller conveyor from where the separator is currently

located while the plate freezers are in use. Because they wouldn't have to worry about the

forklift, which posed a severe safety risk, staff could then concentrate on their task,

enhancing production and speed.

 Shorter transit distances result in fewer workers being required for processing, (King &

Stapleton, 1993)

Metrics to measure success.

I suggest implementing the measurement-based Six Sigma technique to enhance Beothic's

process. Six Sigma is a management philosophy that favors qualitative measurements of

success over qualitative markers and relies on statistical enhancements to corporate processes

(Hayes 2021). In order to increase business functionality, Six Sigma employs statistics,

financial analysis, and project management (Hayes 2021).

They should concentrate on continuous improvement in order to maximize customer

satisfaction. For this process, they need to employ the DMAIC methodology which is a six-

sigma approach to assure a data-driven approach that will result in a superior manufacturing

process (Hayes 2021). The DMAIC process has five stages: define, measure, analyze,

improve, and control (Hayes 2021).

Define the problem, the improvement opportunity, the improvement activity, the project

objectives, and the client's requirements (both internal and external). A process map is a

graphic representation of the steps that make up a process, according to Tanner (Tanner,

2021). The team needs to measure the current performance of each process prior to

reorganization which can act as a base comparison after the changeover. They can also use

financial metrics such as ratios, and break-even among others to measure if the reorganization

has improved the overall profitability. To increase process performance, analyze the results

and then address and eliminate the underlying causes.

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