Production Management Benefits From Proposed

Production Management Benefits from proposed action: In the maintenance for any factory, there is always the maintenance department which takes care of maintenance of machines and they are not members of the production workers, but they are still workers of the factory. The suggestion here is to use the workers only for the purpose of maintenance and not other workers of the factory. How would they know when maintenance is required? There are many other methods of maintenance which have been seen to provide better results.

Problems from the action: There is always a feeling of enmity between the workers and the management since the factories are now of bigger size.

Till 1919, there was regret and the president of an urban railway company said that there was a loss of efficiency due to the "failure to protect and continue in effect that close intimate relationship which obtained during the days of small organizations when the proprietor or general manager knew each man by his first name, was familiar with his family affairs, and had more or less first hand knowledge of the hopes and ambitions of each member of the organization." (Redefining the Labor Problem) Thus when we take steps which create doubts in the minds of the workers that their jobs will be increased without additional payment, there is a chance that trouble will start among the workers.

Other information: There are two important questions here. The first question is that we should begin with the assumption that this will be done as the idea has come from a manager whose orders cannot change. In that case, we should try to forecast the problems that are likely to come from the workers and find it out. This can be done through discussions with the union representatives. The other approach is to look at the issue as one of adopting a method to reduce the impact of machine breakdowns.

In that case we should look at the different maintenance programs that can be adopted and choose a program which is probably a little more complicated, but is likely to result in lower costs and better efficiency. There are at present three styles of maintenance - predictive, preventive and proactive. (What is Proactive Maintenance?) The importance of maintenance may be realized as the costs of maintenance for many industries are in thousands and even millions of dollars.

It has been stated by Dupont that "maintenance is the largest single controllable expenditure in a plant." (What is Proactive Maintenance?) The first difficulty for many is to understand the reality of large costs for maintenance. The costs come from loss of production while the workers have to be paid. The general reasons for the failure of any machinery, of whatever type it may be is due to fluid contamination for all equipment failure.

This is true for any type of machinery and the smallest particle can ultimately bring a machine to a halt. Among the three types of maintenance that are used, predictive maintenance is based on maintaining the machine once signs are seen that the machine has begun to give trouble. In this manner, there will be a few machines which will be left free for maintenance, and thus save on wages to be paid to the employees.

The second method is to go on a preventive maintenance according to a predetermined schedule, whether the machine requires maintenance or not. This also can be taken up on a day when the factory would not be working otherwise. For both these styles of maintenance, it does not matter as to who is responsible for doing the maintenance. (What is Proactive Maintenance?) Along with these, the third policy of.