Changing Tools- Lean Production and Total Quantity Management

Organizational Development and Change

Organisational Development and Change 1
“Changing Tools- Lean Production and Total Quantity Management”
Organisational development is the process of changing the environment and improving the
organisation structure. There are many issues arises while adopting the changes in the
organisation. The efficiency of product and services is reduces while changing the structure
and activity of the organisation (Davidson, 2017). There are many tools that are used to
control the changes in the organisation such as lean production, Total quantity management,
and many others. In this paper, the lean production tool and total quantity management has
been discussed in order to analyse their benefits and limitations at the workplace. For the
analysis, Ford as the manufacturing company and Hotel Hilton as the service company has
been taken.
Lean Production is the tool which is used to eliminate the wastage in order to ensure the
quality. The approach of the business can be applied to all parts of business from setting the
goal to developing the product. The main aim of this production is to cut costs by making the
business more effective and efficient. In this approach, activities would be minimising that
does not add value to the production process (Jasti, & Kodali, 2015). The lean approach in
the organisation defines the position of the company in order to do the simple things well,
high quality of product and services, continuous process of improvement. The lean
production is used by the many companies to make them capable and powerful over its
competitors to gain the advantage. Less wastage in the production process means lower cost
which is important part for the company to attain the high success in the industry. There are
six factors that define the concept of lean production and these are Over-production, Waiting
time, Transport, Stocks, Motion, and Defects (Uhrin, Bruque-Cámara, & Moyano-Fuentes,
2017).

Organisational Development and Change 2
TQM is stands for total quality management which defines the process of detecting or
eliminating defects in manufacturing, streamlining supply chain management, ensuring the
speed with training and improving customer experience. The main aim of this tool is to
integrate the all parties which are involved in the production process to improve the quality.
The purpose of integration of people is to ensure that the employees are working towards the
objectives and goals of the organisation. It is essential for the company to attain its objective
and that can be possible by satisfying the consumer needs and wants. The process of total
quantity management is also implied by the organisation to provide the excellent services to
consumers by improving the process.
Ford motor car is an automobiles and commercial vehicles under the brand value and most
luxury cars. It has been seen that the lean production tool has been implemented by the
company in order to get the effective result in the low cost (Henry Ford, 2018). The
production system of the company is highly efficient due to which the company is able to
deliver the services and product with the low cost. It is observed that the company provides
the training to its employees in order to complete the task with the efficient time and material.
It helps to reduce the wastage of time and the material. It has been seen that the ford adopts
the mass production system which defines the continuation process of manufacturing or
delivering the service (Wagner,Herrmann, & Thiede, 2017). From this system, the needs and
demand of consumers is fulfilled and the motion of work is also continues. The production
system of the company is effective in terms of reducing the wastage as they eliminate the
wastage of time. The lean production helps the company to beat its competitors by providing
the quality of services to consumers with the low cost. It can be said that the lean production
is an appropriate tool for the company to work on the basis of its mission and vision.
The lean production system also has the disadvantages or limitations due to which the
company face the issues such as standardisation production is not effective for the company.