Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Developing explicit, Brief corporate objectives & Strategy for 3 to 5 years Corporate Objective by Market share for next 5 years via a strategy:
needs Offering advanced & Special product features at a modest price increment Gaining competitive advantage via rapid product development & service orientation to all size of customers
support strategy Weaknesses to achieve the objective Identifying probable area of failure Loosing one of the elements, but gain in overall combination of some of them Introduction of new customized products, with lower lead times as compared to competitors Introduction of new process, so as to overcome technical problems, maintain reliability & acquiring rapid changes
Reorganization of elements of structure to produce a congruent focus which gives the ability to do most important and limited things well to complete task
E.g. If the company is currently involved in the 5
How it is setup, organized, focused and manned Identifying strength of production systems How to implement the key manufacturing task?
different products, technologies, markets or volumes, does it need five plants, five sets of equipment, five processes, five technologies and five organizational structures? But the practical solution need not involve selling the big multi-purpose facility and decentralization into 5 small facilities
physically into 5 PWPs Each PWP has its own facilities, which concentrate with manufacturing task, own work force management approaches, Production control etc. Quality & volumes levels are not mixed Clear focus on worker training and incentives, as per expertise on engineering processes, equipment & Materials handling.
1. One Large Plant 2. Special Purpose equipment 3. High volume tooling 4. Balance Capacity with functional layout
1. Separate old, standardized products & new customized products into 2 PWP 2. Provide general purpose equipment 3. Temporary tooling & modest excess capacity with product oriented layout 1. Create fewer jobs with more versatility 2. Pay for breadth of skills & ability to perform a variety of jobs 3. Provide more foremen for solving technical problems at workplace
1. Specialized job with narrow job content 2. Incentive Wages 3. Few Supervisors 4. Focus on volume Production hour
Quality Control
Organizational Structure
1. Functional 2. Production under super indents of each area 3. Inspection reports to top
Top performance of the objectives of each functional department i.e. many tasks
1. Organize each PWP by program and project in order to focus organizational effort bringing new products smoothly and on time