Different Departments involve in any typical Manufacturing Plant
There are several departments in any typical Manufacturing Plant, which are given below in
complete detail:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
Engineering Research and Development Department
Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department
New Products Development Department
Manufacturing Department
Quality Department
Maintenance Department
Marketing Department
Human Resources Development
Personnel Department
Finance Department
Complete detail and functions of these departments with figures are given below:
(1) Engineering Research and development Department:
The function of the Engineering Research and Development department is to monitor the new
trends developing in the market place and develop new products, Upgrade the design of the
existing products, do testing to understand the product functions. This department plays a vital
role in keeping the industry products competitive.
(2) Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department:
This department will be responsible to design the process for the manufacturing. The process
that has to be adopted, design of tools and machines that are to be used, Inspection method that
has to be practiced in a manufacturing process are decided by this department. The product
trails are done and once the product is proved to be capable after capabilities studies the process
is handed over to the production team for mass production.
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(3) New Products Development Department:
This department is responsible for the development of the product from the market inputs to
development of the product and reaching the customers. The lead time in development of the
product from idea to a product in real is the challenging task of this department.
(4) Manufacturing Department:
The function of this department is the conversion of the raw material to a finished
product. The process plan is given by the manufacturing System Engineering
department and the manufacturing team does the manufacturing, assembly, inspection,
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packing of the products as per the process plan. Production of parts, assembly, testing
and packing of the parts will be covered under the manufacturing Department.
(5) Quality Department:
This department ensures the proper deployment of the Quality management Systems that is in
practice to ensure that the quality of the products produced are acceptable by the customer.
The Quality Management ensures Quality Planning, Quality assurance, Quality control and
Quality improvements are practiced in the organization.
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(6) Maintenance Department:
The Function of this department is to ensure the machines and equipment in the organization
are in good working condition. The maintenance department carries out various maintenance
activities such as Preventive maintenance, Break down maintenance, Time based maintenance
etc. to keep the down time minimal in the organization.
(7) Marketing Department:
The Function of this department is to find out the need of the customer and fulfill the need with
the products and services of the organization. This involves market research, setting prices,
finding distribution channels, advertisements etc.
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(8) Human Resources and development Department:
The function of this department is to ensure the Human resources in the industry are competent
to perform the assigned activities. This involves Recruiting right people, training of existing
people and motivating the people for the performance to improve their performance.
(9) Personnel Department:
The Function of this department is to ensure the people working in the plant are Happy and
safe. Meeting the safety measures, legal requirements and the welfare activities are the
important function of the Personnel department.
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(10) Finance Department:
The Function of this Department is to acquire funds, manage and redistribute the funds based
on the budget planned for the financial year. This department is responsible for the
documentation of the assets in the organization. This department processes and monitors the
revenue spending of the organization and ensure to keep them under the budgeted value.
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