“Implementing AMH has improved our customer satisfaction, increased our circulation, and improved our work environment.”
THE CHALLENGE
THE SOLUTION
Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts, USA formed a task force to look at Automated Material Handling (AMH) with the aim of streamlining inefficient workflows and improving the working environment.
The average time post AMH-implementation is almost down to just two hours. Circulation increased 30%, staff has been redeployed to less fatiguing and more challenging work, with employee and customer satisfaction increasing exponentially.
Lyngsoe Systems were asked to look at ways of solving Worcester’s problems after a fact-finding visit by the task force to the Darien Library in neighboring Connecticut, where Lyngsoe Systems Integrated Library System (ILS) was in use. A report backed up by statistics was compiled with recommendations to the city management and approved. Lyngsoe Systems designed the system around Worcester’s needs and it went live in 2013. The average time it took for a returned item to go from check-in to the shelf was cut from several days (and sometimes even weeks) to just 2 hours. Productivity is up, job satisfaction up, customer service levels up, whilst levels of occupational injuries and sickness are down – along with costs.
THE RESULTS
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