Abstract

The western industry is facing changing markets and paradigms such as drastically decreasing product lifetimes and fierce international competition. Now product quality, time to market and costs are all equally essential. The production management of the future lies in culturally adapted and less complex structures: The way to process-orientated decentralized structures which are characterized by a customer-orientated enterprise, starts in the heads of the management and the employees. Based on the principles of company philosophy, human resources as a decisive factor, preventative quality assurance, appropriate market orientation, production as an integrated process and continuous professional and social training of staff, an individually adapted organizational concept involving all departments of a company in the value-added chain can be developed and realized.

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