Job Shop Leaders by Torrence Smith

Author:Torrence Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: make to order job shop, manufacturing leadership, factory productivity, the goal by eli goldratt, free leadership book, business restructuring
Publisher: Torrence Smith
Published: 2017-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

HVAC Fabrication & Assembly Plant

Being plant manager for a $9 million plant gave me the opportunity to be improvement manager for a $114 million factory. It was an old Carrier HVAC plant. The efficiencies were low. You would think something like that had a lot of automation. Sorry but no. Instead it was filled with massive amounts of manual labor. Nearly everything was fabricated and then assembled by hand.

Over the course of a few weeks I wrote down all the problems I found. I organized them in excel. To make it easier I divided it by pages and then tabbed them by department. There were maybe seven tabs. Looking at it gave me Attention Deficit Disorder. I would start on one of the items on the list and then jump to something else.

I showed it to one of the operations managers. He walked out of my office without saying anything. After I’d just paid for lunch. I guess he didn’t want to hurt my feelings. Even I could tell this was probably too much.

There were so many things to fix, I didn’t know where to start, how to feed the projects into the factory. Steve and I talked every day, back and forth. In the center of a complex problem we found a simple solution. To steal a quote from Mark Woeppel, ‘we had to get to full kit’. Once we had all the parts the orders would flow. When we had a ‘full kit’ we were ready to go. How do you train a leader for such a dynamic environment?

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