Inefficiency in engineering change management in kimberly clark VietNam co., ltd

Abstract

In manufacturing, the key business responsibility is to produce a product that can supply the demand of customer and the performance is made the competitive elasticity with a rival. So that the purpose of the thesis is to explore the causes of low performance on overall equipment efficiency of manufacturing and find out that production line BD03 is the lowest performance from early of 2017 to mid-year 2018 in Kimberly Clark Viet Nam. The thesis using theory-informed to group possible problem based on interviews and theory-confirmed combined with depth-interview to figure out the main problem. The finding of thesis revealed that the inefficiency engineering change management is the main reason that leads to inefficiency in change management during project implementation for new product development on production line BD03 and strongly impacts to manufacturing performance. The inefficiency engineering change management is a serious problem, it leads to internal and external customer dissatisfaction and cost for redesign, human resource constraint for rework, the author has reviewed the literature and the collected data from Kimberly Clark plant during deep interviews with managers, mini-survey on staffs and reports from Kimberly Clark plant of head department, and employees to figure out the main problem and the causes of this problem. The solution for inefficiency in engineering change management is developing a design for reliability model to eliminate the operational risk and develop an engineering change process in new product development. Both solutions need budget investment approx. $27,000 USD for human resource and consultant, this solution will build a strong foundation verification a design change and analysis the impact to machine performance before application on production