Computer Aided System for Industrial Productivity Performance Determination

Abstract

One 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 developed a computer aided system for industrial productivity performance determination for small and medium-scale industries. The industrial productivity assessment application was 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, feeding the input into the Material, Capital, Labour, Energy, Expenses and Output sections respectively and generating the productivity report. In order to evaluate the performance of the developed application, a suitable company “Psaltry International Ltd” was selected 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 generated results from the productivity assessment application which duly showed that the result from the productivity application was accurate. Based on this it was recommended that small and medium scale industries should embrace the use of computer aid systems in the management of their productivity.