Technological mature assembling systems only lead to the desired success if they are implemented in an economic manner. Thus special attention is set on organisational measures to improve the assembling processes with its technical facilities.
Key Elements
When adjusting the following key elements the performance of the whole assembling process regarding productivity, delivery reliability and quality can be decisively influenced.
Kaizen The philosophy of continuous improvement takes a central position within GAM which can be tracked throughout all organisational levels. Under the cover of Kaizen several tolls like PDCA, BVW, FMEA, TPM, JIT, Kanban, etc. have been established in various departments.
For further information concerning the continuous improvement process (KVP) please see “QM-System".
Semi-autonomous Teams Classic shop floor organisations have been replaced by team organisation models, where the teams work to rough rules and defined goals but on their own responsibility in terms of achieving these goals. Support teams close the gap to higher level functions.
Flexi Time Model To fulfil the given tasks each team disposes of a flexible work time contingent with no fixed start and end time. This leads to an optimisation of attendance time which again leads to easier compensations of capacity fluctuations. Additionally the workers have the possibility to optimally plan their time off.
Incentive Payment System Corresponding to the degree of target achievement premiums are added to the basis payroll. Performance measures relating productivity, quality and delivery reliability visualise the set targets. This system should provide an easy tracking of the targets both for workers and managers as well as some kind of corporate success sharing. Clear-transparent performance measures and comparable systems are certainly the most important factors within the incentive payment system.