Resources for Manufacturers to Navigate COVID-19

Factories globally are working hard to effectively navigate COVID-19. Here are some resources we think are helpful and actionable:

• Summary of measures for manufacturers to consider to keep teams healthy (from Rever). Their recommendations are informed by interviews with manufacturing leaders in countries such as Italy that have already been impacted by the crisis.

• Helpful webinar on taking care of your people and operations during COVID-19, recorded in both Spanish and English and chock-full of actionable advice (also from Rever)

• Successful strategies one plant used to get back in action after coronavirus, including texting workers to alleviate anxiety, paying for rooms to quarantine employees, putting up partitions to separate workers, and communicating closely with suppliers and customers.

• Short article with some big-picture recommendations to leverage the crisis as an opportunity to reshape the factory workforce by being thoughtful about balancing resources, capturing operational knowledge, etc.

• 5 measures to help your business survive, based on lessons learnt from a past crisis: Understand your financial position, act decisively to preserve cash, avoid knee jerk responses that cost cash, ensure leadership listens and speaks with one voice, and ditch the blame game.

• Operational Excellence for the remote workplace, an on-demand webinar available until 31st May 2020, focuses on how to apply tools of flow even when some employees are remote.

• Detailed article describing steps one plant manager took to keep workers safe while operating during the pandemic, such as letters for employees in case they are stopped coming to work, policy adjustments to protect sick and healthy teammates alike, and shifting product mix to respond to changing demand.

We will continue to add to this list of resources for manufacturers during the crisis. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have additional resources you think should be added.