Innovative Activity as the Factor of Development of Industrial Company
The article considers the criteria of innovative activity of an industrial company. The innovative potential of the organization increases owing to the introduction of science intensive production based on the concept of “lean manufacturing”. The aim of the research is to achieve, through the formation of the innovative activity elements in production activities, the maximum possible savings in all the resources of the company, raising the level of the production culture and the company development. To achieve this goal, we determined the indicators of innovation activity that define the company efficiency, analyzed the magnitude of losses in the production activity of the company and the degree of the internal customers satisfaction. It is assumed that within the introduction of the lean manufacturing concept at the company the innovative potential of the company can be increased by reducing non-production losses at the production site. Monitoring the work process of operators showed that losses from movements are estimated. By plotting the “spaghetti” diagram, the trajectory of the employee’s movement along the site is described and the activity for eliminating the intra-shift losses is proposed.