Human Resource Practices for Implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (1986) / Chapter Skim
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4 Plant Organization
4 Plant Organization
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It should be noted that some companies are pursuing similar organizational changes without the introduction of ANT, in response to increasing competition. ORGANI ZATIONAL DES IGN The Plant Manager The manager of a plant that will invest in ANT should be selected well before the new technology is operational and should be assigned full- or part-time to the implementation team.
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1 ~ Cal ~ 1. Factory control administrator 2.
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Traditional organization charts may be replaced by diagrams that reflect the consultative forms of decision making that increasingly characterize the factory. Figure 2, from the organizational structure of an automobile components plant (M)
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who could be this own manufacturing engineer, process engineer, and foreman.. Number of Organizational Levels As plants assign support functions to self-contained work cells, the number of levels in the factory organization is reduced: for example: · An electronics equipment plant (G)
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In a newly organized electronics plant (N) , semiautonomous work teams operate under a four-level functional structure similar to that of an existing facility nearby.
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The supervisor's role changes further as team leadership shifts from a directive toward a facilitative mode. When operators are organized into teams with a greater degree of self-management, supervisors become less concerned with internal team regulation and wore involved in monitor ing, planning, coordinating, training, and appraising performance.
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wan capable of alerting all management levels simultaneously to problems that might previously have languished at lower levels. In the tightly coupled production system (with 4 to 5 hours of inventory)
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Examples of the use of transitional structures include the following: · An electronics company (plant N) used an existing plant as a transitional structure in which to train employees destined for a recapitalized plant, in the same metropolitan area, with a ~tate-of-the-art production process using AMT.
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