Organizational Structures and Concepts: A Comprehensive Guide
Objectives of the organization: The means by which an organization’s activities become a unified set that seeks to satisfy personal needs.
Organizational structure: The distribution and management of all the elements that make up an organization.
Vertical organization: The distribution of levels of authority and responsibility; defines and brands organizational functions according to established law and the specificity of the institution.
Horizontal organization: Focuses on the organizational aspects
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Legitimate power: conceived by the hierarchy
Integrated Enterprise-Wide Data Model, ERP, and System Development
Week 8: Integrated Enterprise-Wide Data Model
An integrated enterprise-wide data model represents a merging of the separate data models for all the company’s applications (including AIS) into one single database. This creates a one-stop data facility that provides a unified view of data and enables data sharing across functionalities (departments). Benefits include using a basic account code for travel and another code for purpose. Valuable information can be extracted using queries. An unintegrated
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Corrective Maintenance
Corrective maintenance, the original maintenance technique, remains widely used today. This approach involves repairing a machine after it fails. Corrective maintenance can be categorized into five main types:
- Fail Repair: Restoring a failed component to its operational state.
- Salvage: Disposing of non-repairable material and utilizing salvaged parts from irreparable items in repair, overhaul, or rebuild programs.
- Rebuild: Returning a component to its original specifications by
Understanding Different Maintenance Strategies: PM, CM, PDM, TPM, RCM, and SMED
Preventive Maintenance (PM)
Preventive Maintenance (PM) encompasses activities performed on plant equipment, machinery, and systems before failure occurs. This proactive approach aims to protect assets and prevent or eliminate performance degradation.
Definition: Maintenance carried out at predetermined intervals or according to prescribed criteria, intended to reduce the probability of failure or degradation and limit the impact of any issues.
Importance of MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
A key metric
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Item 7. The Basic Process Design and Integration
1. Introduction
Definition of Organizational Design Process
“Specific management tasks and activities taking place within the organization to its environment through a set of processes, such as to provide a framework in which individuals relate and resources to achieve compliance certain objectives.”
Organizational Design Process
Combination of two factors:
- Orderly distribution of tasks between the individuals of the organization.
- Coordination of efforts.