a. What Maintenance policies to be pursued by the operations manager to reduce failures and improve productivity?
Answer:- Manufacturing & Operations Manager with extensive lean manufacturing implementation experience. Accomplished leader of operational excellence and continuous improvement programs. Long history of orchestrating substantial performance leaps and cost reductions in numerous manufacturing facilities across North America. Business minded decision maker relentlessly focused on bringing quality and cost to world class levels. Highly dedicated team builder revered for leading crucial change initiatives while simultaneously winning employee loyalty and trust. Thorough knowledge of all lean manufacturing & total productive maintenance processes, methodologies, and applied best practices. Demonstrated success in turnaround and crisis management, with experience in “right-sizing” operations to improve P&L scenario.
Selectively pursuing plant operations positions in southern Michigan and northern Ohio. Desire organizations in need of a strong "change agent" to drive real operations improvements, while increasing efficiencies and reducing overall costs.
b. Explain components of work execution.
Answer:- On a mainframe computer many different applications execute at the same time. The expectations for executing work are consistent execution times and predictable access to databases. On z/OS the Workload Manager (WLM) component fulfills these needs by controlling work's access to system resources based on external specifications by the system administrator.
The system administrator classifies work to service classes. The classification mechanism uses work attributes like transaction names, user identifications or program names which specific applications are known to use. In addition the system administrator defines goals and importance levels for the service classes representing the application work. The goals define performance