Creating an Information Factory

Assembly Line - describing the units of work along with the dependencies between the steps thereby defining the progression and synchronization of product development. Precision Tooling - for mechanical leverage in developing products. Standardization of Parts - for interchangeability of parts between products, thereby lowering costs and shortening development time, and allowing assembly by unskilled and semi-skilled workers. Mass Demand - this represents the impetus for mass production; customers demanding standardized and reliable products at lower costs. In the IRM world this is represented by end-users who require standard and reliable systems at lower costs to support their information needs. The rationale behind mass production is improved productivity; producing more quality products at less cost. Most people fallaciously equate productivity with efficiency, which simply gauges how fast we can perform a given task. Effectiveness, on the other hand, validates the necessity of the task itself. There is nothing more unproductive than to do something efficiently that should not have been done at all. An industrial robot, for example, can efficiently perform tasks such as welding. However, if it welds the wrong thing or at the wrong time, then it is counterproductive. It therefore becomes important in the production of any product to define WHO is to perform WHAT work, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, and HOW (we refer to this as "5W+H"). We therefore have long touted the following formula: Productivity = Effectiveness X Efficiency It is our belief improved productivity can be instituted by implementing the five elements of mass production and devising a manufacturing facility whereby are found: Assembly Lines - increments of work sequenced in such a way to develop products.

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