Reaction paper

Reaction paper: Lufthansa Technik Philippines Lufthansa Technik Philippines is a company that focuses on maintenance checks of different types of aircraft. They support major modifications, cabin reconfigurations, engine maintenance and painting of aircrafts. The company’s core values aim to promote a healthy relationship among employees – one that is based on mutual trust, respect and cooperation. Employees are committed to their values of team orientation, discipline, reliability, responsibility, commitment and excellence (http://www.ltp.com.ph/Pages/Content.aspx?cid=5). Production Management is an important core of Lufthansa. It was discussed that the main purpose is to produce goods and services of the right quality, right quantity, at the right time and at the minimum cost, as these are what customer demands these days. The company must improve its efficiency and utilize its capacity to stay competitive by using LEAN principle in achieving these goals.
The company embraces LEAN approach to help improve of their current process. The management created a program wherein their employees must submit new ideas on how to improve the current condition of the organization in order to maximize its effectiveness and efficiency. The purpose of this principle is to reduce or totally eliminate waste process or non-value activities and optimize the company’s production system. One illustration that was introduced was the tool box wherein the tools where painted with color blue and the part where the tools are placed was painted with color yellow. The purpose of the idea was to lessen the time consumed in checking the tools, and time saved can be use in other more important task- efficiency. Through LEAN, the company will be able to fully utilize its resources such as manpower, time, machines, and the like. I believe that one important factor of the company’s success in implementing this change was communication. The management was able to integrate its