COMPUTER AIDED SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY PERFORMANCE DETERMINATION

Abstract

One of the biggest concerns for any organization is to improve their productivity, representing the effective and efficient conversion of resources into marketable products. Productivity can be expressed as the measure of the combined efficiency of employees, machines and equipment, raw material inputs, management performance, efficiency of the whole production system. The obvious problem in determining productivity especially for small and medium scale companies is the lack of appropriate software to help determine their productivity. This work therefore aims to develop a computer aided system for industrial productivity performance determination for industries. The proposed industrial productivity assessment application was successfully developed using C# in the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment. The application featured an easy to use and modern graphical interface and PDF report generation functionality. The usage procedure basically involved getting the productivity input data via an administered questionnaire,in other to evaluate the performance of the developed application, a suitable company “Psaltry International Ltd” was used as a case study and the data from 2013 to 2019 were used as the test inputs. The input data were also analysed manually and the result were compared with the ANOVA Single factor for productivity of material, capital energy and labour, the calculated F-value and critical F-value were (0.000364and 4.964), (0.000134 and 4.9646), (4.06E07 and 4.964) and (2.41E-05 and 4.9646) respectively. The productivity assessment application duly showed that the result from the productivity application was accurate at confidence level of α = 0.05.