Making Manufacturing Operations More Predictable
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A combination of trends, such as outsourcing and off-shoring, are radically changing the way manufacturing organizations work. As a result of off-shoring, teams are often geographically distributed. Outsourcing creates another twist -- key tasks in product design, engineering and manufacturing are likely to be done by component suppliers or contract manufacturers.
Most importantly, vertical organizations are becoming a thing of the past. They are being replaced with cross-department, cross-company, geographically distributed, flexible teams. As a result of these trends, it is possible that a project team for product design, manufacturing or product launch is faced with trying to communicate between employees who work for different companies and are based in different locations. In addition, the rise of global competition, thinner profit margins and time-to-market considerations require that these virtual teams come together on short notice to create and execute an error-free project faster than ever before.
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Friday 26 September, 2008 09:04 AM |
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