Production Planning &
Control
(1966 to 72)
Worked in Aero Engine Division of Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd, Bangalore for six years
My main assignment was to plan for shop loading,
monitoring and advice top management on bottlenecks holding production
schedules. The factory had machine shops, sheet metal and welding shops,Heatreatment
facilities, Electroplating and finishing shops. There were three types of
engines being manufactured to power fighter plane, helicopter and transport
aircraft. There were about 20,000 components & sub assemblies to be
made apart from about 30,000 parts bought out finished from French &
English collobraters.The manufacturing lead time was from 6 months for
big components like turbine shafts, discs etc and about a month for small
parts. The factory was batch producing and involved very stringent control
of inspection & quality control. The bought out parts have to come from
oversea and procurement lead time used to be as high as 6 months.
There was no system of production scheduling
before i took up the assignment, only chasing up assembly shortage lists
were in vogue. I stream lined and introduced the scheduling of shop loading
based on estimated manufacturing lead times. Batch production of full set
of parts for each engine ensured to adhere production targets fixed by
management.
My work resulted in 300 % improvement in production
& stream lined the manufacturing shop loading process. Machine Utilization
improved by 100 % Labor Utilization too got improved
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