Disturbance management: A productivity improvement tool

  ABSTRACT  3

  KEY WORDS  3

  INTRODUCTION  4

  WHAT IS DISTURBANCE MANAGEMENT  5

  Need of Disturbance Management  5

  WHAT IS PRODUCTIVITY  7

  METHODOLOGY OF DISTURBANCE MANAGEMENT  8

  IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY BY DISTURBANCE MANAGEMENT  10

  CONCLUSION  11

  REFERENCE  12

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ABSTRACT

KEY WORDS

Disturbance Management, Productivity

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INTRODUCTION

At the international level, concern for productivity is principally aimed at establishing competitiveness against the production of different countries in term of quality, technology and cost of production. At the enterprises level, main concern is towards utilization of resources to as to produce optimum result of performance. Nothing stand still in this world, world is fast changing. So companies , for survival in today competitive market, have to produce sufficient goods and services while consuming less resource should be managed properly.

The confined progress of any industry is dependent on its ability to optimally and judiciously allocate and utilize its resources so as to provide desired products and /or services at the right time, place price, quality and quantity to the commodity. This requires an integrated approach, an effort to raise productivity and reduce waste. High levels of productivity result in more quality goods at lower costs, which is the basis for lower prices, higher purchasing power and real earnings improvement in working and living conditions and sometimes even shorter working hours. Disturbances are referred to as ‘abnormal situations’ within the context of the control which can affect the efficiency of the system.

An ‘abnormal situation’ is a general term, that is applied when a process deviate from the acceptable normal range of operation. One of the tasks of human operator supervising a complex process plant is to respond appropriately into disturbance situation. The foremost reason behind companies driving importance to disturbance management because only a high reactive and frictionless order fulfillment and order management; as a result, disturbance management is becoming essential part of process plant.

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