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The Ongoing Efforts of Companies

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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Leadership ManagementProfessional Development
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK...............................................................................................................................................4Identification of the root cause with the help of appropriate tools and techniques.....................4Propose a plan for elimination the root cause by taking required resources into consideration.6A continuous improvement plan..................................................................................................9Recommendations......................................................................................................................10CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONContinuous improvement refers to the ongoing efforts of companies for improvingquality of their products, services or business processes. It is also well known as continualimprovement process. For some of the organizations, continuous improvement process is a meta-process which improves their most of the management systems like project management, qualitymanagement, business process management, program management and many others. It is anever-ending change which works for increasing efficiency and effectiveness of a firm (First,Kendler and Leibenluft, 2017). For the current study, given a case study of Latino Engineering, a midsize organization ofNew South Wales, Australia is taken into consideration. By focusing on the situation of the body,the file explains the causes of its problem by using appropriate tools and techniques, a plan foreliminating them and continuous improvement plan for ending them. TASKIdentification of the root cause with the help of appropriate tools and techniques According to the given case, Latino Engineering a medium scale firm is situated in NewSouth Wales, Australia. The company offers to design, developing and manufacturing of theengineering equipment to the different industrial sectors such as construction, infrastructure, etc.The cited firm is working for 30 years and famous among the customers due to its quality ofservices and products. After a specific time, Dominic Latino took a big step of selling outrightsof the company to the suitable investment group. After 12 months of the takeover, LatinoEngineering started receiving complaints from the clients. It is essential for the company toresolve these claims for maintaining its brand image among the clients. For handling thesituation, it is necessary to understand the cause of the allegations, and this can be done only byusing appropriate tools and techniques. In context to this, some of the 7 Quality Control tools aredescribed below which will help in identifying the cause of the problem efficiently (Milner,Milner, Savage and Savage, 2016).Cause and Effect Tool: This is also called as fishbone method which represents the variouscauses of occurring incident. This method includes the group causes into the categories: People,
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methods, materials, environment, machines, and measurements. Concerning this, 5 Ms isappropriate for the Latino Engineering for finding the root cause of its problem. Machine: The Company is using latest technologies for designing, developing andmanufacturing the systems. There is no problem in this factor of the Latino Engineeringas all the machines are updated and as per the requirement of time. Methods: The processes used by the employees of the firm are somewhere inappropriateas clients are receiving defective equipment, wrong packaged products along with longturnaround time. This represents that company processes are improper which isdecreasing the quality of services to the clients (Dale, 2015). Materials: The type of raw materials, techniques, information and consumables used bythe Latino Engineering are of high quality. There is no ignorance concerning the qualityof materials used for the production of equipment. Man: The root cause of the complaints is the workforce of the Latino Engineering.According to the case, the company is receiving claims in the area of defectiveequipment; poor follow up with the clients, no response to the customers, etc. This showsthat workers of the firm are working carelessly and this is affecting the quality of servicesand products as well. Medium: The environment of Latino Engineering can also be the reason behind occurringproblems as the company has purchased by the investors. Due to which some seniorengineers with good experience, proper knowledge, etc. leave the organization. Lack oftalented and experienced employees in the company can result to create a problem inhandling issues and managing processes. Check Sheet: In this, the company gathers the data in real time at the location from where it wasgenerated. With the help of this, data is collected in the form of defect type, defect location anddefect cause. In context to it, defect type is related to the equipment manufactured by the firm,defect location is nothing, and defect cause is the improper management of the businessactivities. This collected information shows that quality of the machines is decreasing with timeafter the takeover of the Latino Engineering. Histogram: This tool helped in understanding the problem in graphical representation. Whileusing this method, data regarding the sales, profitability, cost related to raw materials, etc. are
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