Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2005 / After 1994, when South African was welcomed back into the world economy, companies
had to deal with increased international competition, not only on the traditional local
markets, but also on the competitive global market. This trend is also applicable to the
South African Explosives Industry,
Companies in the South African Explosives Indusrty must therefore ensure operational excellence and manufacture products that confonm to world class standards, Superior
product quality is becoming increasingly important as a decision-making criterion in the
global explosives market, which implies a high demand on bringing products faster to the
market at a lower cost.
To place world class products on the market, the challenge for companies like Somchem,
a division of Denel (pty) Ltd, is to adopt a manufacturing perfonmance model that ensures
compliance to world class manufacturing standards,
This research study evaluates different successful manufacturing models, and provides a
benchmark for the current manufacturing model utilised by Somchem - Denel as evaluated
against these models. The result of a gap analysis undertaken between the manufacturing
performance at Somchem and the world class manufacturing standards is provided with a
recommended strategy to reduce this gap in order to ensure compliance with these world
class manufacturing standards.
An internal and external benchmark exercise was performed, The internal benchmark was
based on the perception of the internal customers using the rapid plant assessment
technique. The external benchmark was conducted with the practical programme for
revolutions in factories (PPORF) technique. An analysis of the results of both exercises
was conducted so as to recommend amendments to the existing manufacturing model at
Somchem - Denel so as to ensure that world class manufacturing standards would be
attained in a reasonably short period namely three (3) years
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:cput/oai:localhost:20.500.11838/984 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Lottering, Cedric |
| Publisher | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/za/ |
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