Recommendations

We recommend the following points to follow up this research.

1. Make a planning of the implementation. The appointed guiding coalition should

elaborate each step of the implementation plan in smaller activities, assign tasks and responsibilities and make a milestone planning for it.

2. Initiate an improvement project to increase the on time delivery of parts from suppliers.

As stated before a barrier to gain the results of this research is that not all parts are available. Currently, the on time delivery of metal parts is the poorest. Therefore, we recommend to focus on the suppliers of metal parts. This improvement project can be done in parallel with the implementation of this research. We recommend that the procurement and logistics department takes responsibility and control of this improvement project, because it is related to the suppliers.

3. Initiate an improvement project to optimise the car of the warehouse to the new

standard. We recommend to do this after implementation of the new standard, with the same guiding coalition plus stakeholders of the warehouse. This is because the guiding coalition is familiar with the new standard. Stakeholders of the warehouse need to be added, because of the possible limitations in the warehouse which the guiding coalition is not aware of and gaining support of the employees of the warehouse.

4. After the implementation, start with continuous improvement of FA by keeping track

of the flaws at FA with a Pareto analysis and solve these flaws. A Pareto analysis gives an overview of the largest flaws, where ZGEU can obtain the largest improvements. Besides, it forces the organisation to gather data about the process and gives direction for continuous improvement of the process.

5. We have limited the scope of this research to the bottleneck process, therefore other

processes have not been researched. However, we expect that by researching the other processes with the same approach of this research at FA, an extra significant reduction in the production lead time can be gained.

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