Organisation Structure

         Above organisation chart is showing typical organisation structure of any automotive manufacturing OEM/ Supplier. Every element in the chart will have unique function, however depending on the organisation strategy, scope, manpower availability, responsibility is assigned to employees. Sometimes in small organisations many functions are clubbed together and assigned to the single employee or in large organisations functions are broken in sub functions and assigned to the more number of employees. No matter all functions are important for any manufacturing organisation irrespective of whether employee is part of organisation ie. on employer role or outsourced to external agency like recruitment of manpower, Maintenance, Administration is outsourced etc.

Brief function of all functions in the organisation structure.

Business Head : He is highest authority in the organisation. All functional heads report to Business Head.

Research & Development:

Product Planning (1) :

To plan new product as per the current and future needs of the Customer. Product concept finalisation. To plan long term product strategy 

Design (2) :

To finalise design goals & specifications along with product planning. Convert design goals in part drawings and specification sheets.

Testing & Reliability (3) :

To make prototypes and test it in simulated customer environment and give feedback to design for making corrections. To measure & anticipate reliability & warranty life of product based on testing results.

Manufacturing Engineering (4) :

To plan Facility, Tooling & gages for new products, establish it and handover to production.

Administration (5) :

To monitor day to day requirement of employees in office & plant such as cleanliness, staff requirement, event management, security management etc.

Manufacturing (Production) :

Production Planning & Control (6) :

To plan daily, weekly and monthly schedule for production. ie models, colour combinations, Quantity and sequence of production based on requirement received from sales.

Maintenance (7) :

To maintain all equipment, fixtures, machines, tools, facility in plant in working condition as and when required by production.

 Power Planning & Supply (8) :

To do centralised power planning of electricity, fuel gas, compressed air supply and disposal of waste as per sustainibility guidelines.

Tool Room (9) :

To maintain dies and fixtures. Make spare parts of machines, equipment as per need from maintenance department. Carry out tool regrinding activity till life of tool is over particularly for HSS tools such as drills, hobs, shaving cutters, brazed tools etc. To make new tooling, fixtures as per need.

Marketing (10) :

Identify new customer base, Channel development, Dealer readiness for new products, Dealer Training, support product planning for market survey.

Sales (11) :

Enquiry generation and conversion for sale. Dealer wise yearly planning for sale.

 After Sale Service (Customer Care) (12) :

To provide service to customer for repair and maintain the product performance. Warranty settlement of parts replaced within warranty by dealership. Organise technical training to dealership personnel.

Quality :

Manufacturing Quality (13) :

To ensure product quality during manufacturing as per the specification on part drawing.

Supplier Quality (14) :

To ensure product quality of parts supplied by vendor or supplier.

Field Quality (15) :

To get feed back of field failures of parts at customer end from Customer Care and to take action on design, at manufacturing and at supplier end so that defect free product will be supplied to the customer in future.

Quality Planning (16) :

To ensure quality before launch of new product during Design, Manufacturing and at supplier end by ensuring all requirements of QMS are adhered such as Design Review, DFMEA, PFMEA, DVPR, Proto Testing etc.

Human Resources (17) :

Human resource planning & recruitment as per need. Training and development of employees. Ensure Personal & Industrial relations among employees.

Supply Chain Management (18) :

Ensuring supply of right quantity of parts of right models from suppliers by procuring it  as per schedule released by Production Planning & Control. 

Part Development (19) :

Part development at supplier as per time line of new projects.

Accounts & Finance (20) :

Financial planning, reporting and controls, investments, cash management , risk management, auditing and accounting.

 Program Management (21) :

To ensure projects are meeting Quality, Cost & Time targets.

NOTE:  

All above functions are documented briefly in generic way, however it would differ organisation to organaisation. More specific details are available in respective organisation's QMS Apex manual.

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