The National Shipbuilding Research Program. Proceedings of the REAPSW Technical Symposium, Paper No. 27: Productivity: Managements' Bonus (!!!) or Failure (???)
Abstract
Overall responsibility for productivity accrues to management--or lack of it. Productivity starts with planning and ends with timely deliveries. Its objectives are satisfied customers and the achievement of profit goals. Thus productivity in its broad sense, means a lot more than just meeting engineered time standards of output throughout the manufacturing cycle. Some reasons given as managerial weaknesses underlying the productivity problem are: (1) failure to develop adequate planning in advance for the production cycle; (2) inability to accurately and fairly measure productivity throughout the cycle; (3) failure to control the production cycle even where measurement techniques have been implemented; and (4) inattentiveness to legitimate complaints, or recommendations, advanced by employees. Three major areas of economic benefits to a shipyard are discussed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA450081
Entities
People
- Frank H. Rack