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¶ … Alex is facing and evaluate different tools to arrive at the solutions. Moreover, the paper evaluates the newer tools such as lean, six sigma, and the internet to arrive at the solution the problem that Alex is facing. The paper provides the overview of the problems that Alex Rogo is asked to solve within three months.
The focus of this paper centers on Alex Rogo, a plant manager of the Uniware, a division of Unico. Alex's meeting with his boss, Bill Peach, reveals that the company is facing challenges and Alex is given an ultimatum of three months to improve the performances of the plants. However, Alex is unable to use available outside tools such as surveys and consultant because of the limited time. With narrow channel to follow, Alex remembered Jonah whom he knew in its previous workplace. With the current company's situation, Alex decided to have a conversation with Jonah, and the conversation made Alex to realize that the goal of any modern business is to make money. Alex further realizes that action towards achieving the goal is to move towards being productive and desist from non-productive actions. (Goldratt, 2004). A further contact with Jonah makes them to define measurement for a plant production: Lean manufacturing is an improved administrative and industrial process developed from a logistics management approach. Typically, lean manufacturing technique will assist a plant manager to carry out manufacturing operations and arrive at optimal flow. Lean focuses on maximizing customers' values by eliminating wastes and the goal is to achieve value stream as much as possible. The technique is by gearing steps that add values and eliminate steps that do not add value to a business.
Measurements:
Throughout: is a system that generates money from sales by this rate. The measurement consists of a market share of the company's product after deducting inventory and operating expenses.
Inventory: consists the money used to purchase items to be sold in the market.
Operational expense: This consist the money to turn inventory into throughput and include items such as oil, lubricating, scraps and depreciation. (Goldratt, 2004).
Although, Alex could have been able to arrive at the solution to the problem using the Goal tools, however, recent development in technology and operational management theory reveal alternative toolsets that Alex Rogo can use. The paper discusses newer tools that could affect the choice of the solutions to Alex problem.
1. Availability of newer Tools
The technique the lean manufacturing employs to maximize value and eliminate wastes is by identifying product family and use VSM (value stream mapping) to add value. Moreover, the lean eliminates loss such as manufacturing faults, inventory, and overproduction, waiting times, manufacturing faults, unnecessary movements and manufacturing disruptions. The lean also smoothly creates material and pull to enhance a demand driven production in order to strive at perfection. (Holweg, 2007). The Ford Company used the lean technique to transform available scarce raw materials into a T-Ford car model within 33 hours. Toyota also uses lean technique to manufacture multiple products using a single assembly line.
Six Sigma is another toolset available for Alex. The Six Sigma is developed from a standpoint quality to reduce variations in business and production process. The goal is to maximize value and ensure that products meet customer's expectation with 0.00034% probability errors. (Tennant, 2001). Motorola and General Electric use Six Sigma technique to enhance quality improvement to maximize customer value.
2. Determination if Alex's goal is similar with these new Tools
The Goal model takes the perspective of the Lean manufacturing to enhance business process improvement. Comparatively, both the Lean and Goal models aim to increase the flow by continuously improving and tracing rate-limiting steps. Moreover, both the Lean and Goal assist a plant to balance a flow and decline a work…
Resources Planning) technologies to solve the problem. The ERP software assists organization to solve complex problem in planning, manufacturing, inventory, cost planning, and service delivery. (Sheilds, 2005). Essentially, ERP assists organizations to track business resource such as production capacity, and raw materials. Using the ERP, Alex would have facilitated information flow between the business functions. Moreover, ERP would have assisted Alex to deliver error-free in production system, which would have quickly solved the problem that Alex was facing.
Conclusion
This paper evaluates the challenges that Alex is facing within his workplace. Alex is given an assignment to turn inefficient plant to efficient working plant within three months. Alex uses the Goal model to arrive at the solution by identifying that all new orders that create bottleneck for the plant. The paper also identifies Lean manufacturing, Six-Sigma, and ERP as effective solutions to the problem. Evaluation of the paper reveals that Alex did not make use of these newer tools to arrive at the solution and integrating these new tools would have assisted Alex to effective arrive at the solutions.
Reference
Goldratt, E.M. (2004). The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. (Third Edition) Great Barrington, MA: North River Press
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