As shop floor management emerges fromthe context of lean production, it certainly has links to many other leanmethods. The above-mentioned components themselves are partly known ascomponents of other lean principles like visual management and performancemanagement. For the reason that today’s research lacks a generally accepteddefinition of shop floor management, some differentiation to other methods hasto be drawn points out the intersection with other managerial principles,mostly connected to the fields of lean production. Links to performancemanagement, leadership systems, visual management, continuous improvementprocess and systematic problem solving can be detected. Components which areapplied in the above-presented understanding of shop floor management aredisplayed. In the intersections with those general principles, applicablemethods are specified. As one outcome of the analyzed objectives and constituentsof shop floor management, it exhibits great influence in the topics of Human Resources.Nevertheless, in this field up until now, it is unclear by which means the specifictraining or qualification of employees should be carried out.
Techniques likeTraining Within Industry focus primarily on supplying job instructions for aquick adaption of workers but neglect the continuous development of the workers.Hence, a white spot of how shop floor management can fill up this gap can beidentifiedThe KPI’s are different in all thefour levels of the shop floor table and this KPI’s are the based on to get thereach the target and get to the goal of their departments. As the KPI’s aredecided by the meister of that level but to reach the goal of plant manager allthe KPI’s are arranged in such a way and try to connect with those KPI’s whichhelp to reach the plant manager goals. To make those KPI’s visible and to makethe target reachable in an easy way the KPI’s are arranged in such a way thatit won’t take more time to visualize and come with the result very easy way. Asthere are a lot of factors which are related to that the one is the cost centerwhere are all linked to it.
As the money is the more important concern to runthe plant of any company and this is related to shop floor management too.
