![]() ![]() The HPT program is designed to drive operational excellence by focusing on key metrics, simple problem solving, and distributing power and responsibility to the plant floor level. Accordingly to plant officials, it takes about eight minutes to build a seat. A typical seat can require about 100 components and the West Point plant produces 183 different seat configurations. DRIVE FOR RESULTS MANUALThe West Point plant, using steel seat frames made by Adient, assembles the seats with foam, fabric, and trim components using a combination of manual labor and robotic systems based on a just-in-time production model. On the tour, ML Council members witnessed how a vehicle seat is made. ML Council members toured the giant company’s 225,000-square foot West Point, GA, plant where seats for Kia Optima and Santa Fe vehicles are produced and learned about Adient’s High Performance Teams (HPT) program, an empowerment plan for the plant’s 300 employees that is serving as a model for other Adient factories. DRIVE FOR RESULTS FULLThis trend was on full display last week at the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s plant tour at Adient, a $16 billion manufacturer of vehicle seats that spun out of Johnson Controls in 2016. At the same time, the percentage of those still with a command-and-control structure, at 37% of the survey today, will decline to just 19% by 2023. While only a quarter of the survey’s respondents say their companies have adopted a collaborative model today, within the next five years that number is expected to rise to 39%. The Manufacturing Leadership Council’s latest survey on the Collaborative Enterprise, published in April, predicted that over the next five years, manufacturers’ organizational models will essentially invert. Now, many manufacturing companies are embracing the notion of a collaborative organizational structure under which power is more widely shared. But with the influence of technologies that have provided more information to more people and have required organizations to coordinate their activities more cross-functionally, the old model has been breaking down. How power is wielded determines how an organization is run, and how well it is run.įor decades, the organizing principle for most companies, including manufacturers, was the command-and-control model, under which power largely resided at the top. ![]() Power defines the nature of any organization. ![]()
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