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HOW TO RECOUP LOST PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITS FROM COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
ATTENTION ALL OWNERS, SUPERVISORS, AND FOREMEN:
If your company lost 2 months of work due to the pandemic lockdown, before concluding you must accept these losses and miss your 2020 target goals give this video and advice due consideration.
To overcome 2 months of losses will require you to increase productivity by 20%+ for the remainder of the year. Now this may sound daunting, it may seem like you’ll need to ask your workers to work like dogs and put in 20% + more time – BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE!
With over 40 years experience in blasting efficiency and productivity, BlastOne can help you overcome such a hurdle and put your financial goals back on track. One such way is by testing your blaster’s technique. We have found on countless test demos that simply improving a blasting technique can reap over 20% increase in productivity.
IMPORTANT: You will need to test your blasting team as follows.
- Mark off an 2-3 areas approximately 1.5 m2. The actual size doesn’t matter as long as each area is equal to the other.
- Do not explain to your blasters what you are testing for – but rather ask them to blast the first area as fast as they can (upholding standard spec criteria) and time this with a stopwatch.
- Depending on which blasting technique they used (scribble, strip, flick) – ask them to blast the second area as fast as they can, but using a different blasting technique. It’s important that you time this with a stopwatch as well, for accurate comparison. Most blasters won’t be able to tell any time difference between the two blasted areas.
- Repeating this process with each of your blasters BEFORE revealing the results will ensure you get accurate data.
It is our longtime experience that one of the techniques will produce a 20%+ increase in productivity as long as the blaster does not intentionally sabotage the technique the don’t prefer.
WHAT IF THEY ARE ALREADY USING THE FASTEST TECHNIQUE? Contact BlastOne to discuss several other tactics (pressure, media, air prep, etc) that can also help you achieve composite gains over 20%.
