Jeenath

PROJECT TITLE: ROMEO ENGINE PLANT
Date : 5th May 2013

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Question 1 - What were the objectives of the Romeo Engine Plants’ manufacturing strategy? 1
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Question 2 - What specific initiatives did the management of Romeo implement to achieve these objectives? 1
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Question 3 - What management control and feedback system were in place at Romeo? How did these management control system assist with the implementation of Romeo’s overall manufacturing strategy? 2

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Question 4 - Evaluate the Strengths and weakness of the Romeo Engine Plant’s Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation. What if any, improvements would you suggest? 3

Question 1 - What were the objectives of the Romeo Engine Plants’ manufacturing strategy?

- High throughput & quality, zero defect manufacturing of engines [Romeo Quality Process]
- “No rework Policy”
- Best in class quality through competitive benchmarking and problem solving approaches
- Significant investments in upgrading internal talent for both technical and managerial skills
- Establish decentralized, flat structured, entrepreneurial problem-solving “work teams”.
- Plant-wide implementation of information systems to replace mundane manual work.
- Establish long term (operational improvement) mechanisms to persistently reduce overhead expenses per unit of output

Question 2 - What specific initiatives did the management of Romeo implement to achieve these objectives?

REP implemented series of activities to achieve their objectives as mentioned in answer.

Objective 1 – Implementation of “Romeo Quality Process”
Romeo Quality Process focused on five core elements
- Forming work teams based on major engine components and assembly operation.
- Forming target levels for products/processes in sync with customer expectations
- Meet or exceed process capabilities requirements
- Develop