You had ten sample assessments for your pace perception check, six visual and four kinestetic.

Assessments 1 to 6 checked your perception of how you 'saw' a work pace. Assessment 7 to 10 checked your perception of how you physically 'felt' a work pace. 

Your work pace perception has two levels, firstly, your perception gap or average deviation from the competitive work pace, and secondly, the polarity, shows whether you are tight or loose to the global benchmarks

 To demonstrate how to calculate your pace perception,  work through the following example.

When you are confident with the calculations, insert your score and this will produce your Pace control perception

  Assessments 1 to 6

Pace control answers

1. 70  2.70,  3. 75,  4. 80,  5. 85,  6. 90

Assessment 1. Subtract your score from the Pace control Answer of 70

eg. if your score was 90 then subtract it from the Pace control answer of 70, your perception is +20

However, if your score was 60, then subtract it from the Pace control answer of 70.   then your perception is -10

So it is important to record your deviation and your + or - polarity on each assessment.

Continue through with this perception calculation to assessment 6

Assessments 7 to 10

The Pace control answer is 100

In this section you where asked to record the number of cycles you achieved in a given time period.

eg. If you recorded 11 cycles, then multiply this by 10, which produces a score of 110, then subtract it from the Pace control answer of 100, then your perception is +10

However if you recorded 8 cycles then multiply this by 10, which produces a score of 80, then subtract it from the Pace control answer of 100, then your perception is -20

By now you should have 10 work pace perceptions of what you think a competitive work pace looks like and feels like

Here is an example to show you the audit trail of maths and logic.

To calculate your Pace control work pace perception substitute your scores

 Use a fresh sheet each time you try

   

Technique	Your Score	Pace Control Answers	Perception Gap + or -
Visual 1	80	70	+10
Visual 2	90	70	+20
Visual 3	65	75	-10
Visual 4	85	80	+5
Visual 5	70	85	-15
Visual 6	100	90	+10
Kinestetic 7	90	100	-10
Kinestetic 8	125	100	+25
Kinestetic 9	115	100	+15
Kinestetic 10	120	100	+20
		Total   + and -	140
Perception	Gap	Divide by 10	14
Loose	Deviation		75%
Tight	Deviation		25%

This example shows a Perception Gap of 14, and a high tendancy to be loose

What does that mean ?

If you think you are seeing an activity at the Competitive Work Pace,100, you are mistaken, you are in fact only seeing a work pace at an 86

If you are too loose, it impacts directly on reduced throughput and increased costs, if you are too tight, that impacts on poor quality, rework and scrap.

The perception check is only a small sample and as such is an indicator only, the example shows the concept of Pace control,

A Certificate qualification in Pace control is needed when accurate assessment is required ie. setting targets or identifying areas of under performance. In the Certificate course, a greater sample is required, 200 in fact, to establish credibility of results.

Pace control has a Certificate course on this website and is free of charge, ( a small fee is required for marking the examination paper only)

If you are interested in gaining a world class best practice skill, then click on the page 'Certificate Course'

All our examiners are qualified by frequent external examination to the MTM Association of America.