HeidelbergCement put emphasis on continuous improvement
Company aiming to achieve sustainable result improvements of at least €120 million by end of 2017
HEIDELBERGCEMENT have announced the start of their Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) in order to continuously optimize the working processes in cement production.
The new programme, which will be introduced at 65 cement plants worldwide, takes a systematic approach in order to generate ideas among employees, and then to prioritize and implement them.
The process enhancements are expected to lead to sustainable result improvements of at least €120 million by the end of 2017.
‘With our Continuous Improvement Program we are changing the business culture at our production sites,’ said Dr Bernd Scheifele (pictured), chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement.
‘Our staff at the cement plants will be trained in entrepreneurial thinking in order to identify improvement potentials and implement them with creative ideas. In this way, we want to secure the efficiency gains from our previous projects while further improving our production processes systematically.’
The Continuous Improvement Program, which has been tested at three pilot sites in Europe since the beginning of 2014, has already led to result improvements of almost €4 million.
Owing to the great success and high acceptance by the employees, CIP will be implemented worldwide starting in September 2014.
