The Focus Factory

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The Focus Factory is a paper written by Wickham Skinner in 1974 in the Harvard Business Review

  • 1. Viewing objectives in terms of how shall we compete not how we raise productivity
  • 2. Seeing the problem as encompassing the entire product cost not just direct labor
  • 3. Focus on a few manageable set of products and get very good at them
  • 4. structure and align policies so that they focus on explicit mfg tasks and not conflicting implicit tasks.

Points

  • 1. There are many ways to compete other than low cost
  • 2. A company can not succeed on every yardstick
  • 3. Simplicity and repetition build competence

Mfg policies should be determined based upon

  • 1. Size, capacity and location of plant
  • 2. Plant layout
  • 3. PT
  • 4. Wage system
  • 5. Use of inventories

Reasons for failure

  • 1. Goals were not congruent
  • 2. Mfg task subtly changed over time but dept's did not change
  • 3. mfg task was never made explicit


Steps

  • 1. Draft corporate objectives
  • 2. Decide what this means for mfg
  • 3. Carefully examine each element of production system
  • 4. Reorganise elements so they become congruent

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DateThis property is a special property in this wiki.1974 +
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