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Daily management is a structured approach to running an operation. Essentially, daily management is the constant application of the PDCA cycle to a production process.

Daily management consists of

  1. Planning: Daily management requires an understanding of what demand will be, and of the capabilities of the organization.
  2. Doing: Daily management requires that leaders inform teams of the plan, and that teams know what the expectation is. They also need to know what to do when there is a problem.
  3. Checking: Teams and leaders must both monitor progress. With clear standards and an established pace, problems become obvious.
  4. Acting: Daily management requires taking immediate action to get back on track. It also requires countermeasures to develop permanent fixes when there is a recurring problem.


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  • ali agha says:
    August 21, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    can you give an idea / explanation PDCA for a service giving organization like for an airport service provider

    • Jeff Hajek says:
      August 21, 2010 at 10:15 pm

      Ali,

      In a daily management cycle, you might predict (plan) that your team can refuel 6 aircraft per hour, and then implement that plan (do). You would track your progress (check), and if you were off of that pace, you would identify what the problems were. Typically something would be wrong, whether incorrect paperwork, wrong fuel type, etc, that would delay the operation. You would act on that information to eliminate the source of the problem.
      PDCA is highly iterative. If you don’t fix the problem, you go back to the starting point and try again.
      Hope this helps, and thanks for asking.
      Regards,
      Jeff Hajek

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