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Change In The Army: A Case Study

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Introduction Change is an inevitable part of life and in the U.S. Army change can very often be swift and mission altering. Companies, whether they be in the manufacturing, service, or merchandising industry also go through organizational changes, which are in many times uncomfortable. Why is change so uncomfortable? It is because it is so very often unplanned and unmanaged, thereby creating friction and a lack of motivation from leadership and employees to institute the change. In the case of the Army’s Materiel Maintenance Policy, change is needed. I can only speak of the changes that I see that are needed at the lower organizational and tactical level. I am currently employed as the Maintenance Control Officer where I am responsible to the commander for the management of the combined efforts of the maintenance control section, maintenance section (unscheduled) and service (scheduled) and recovery section, and the maintenance system teams (McCoy, 2006). Acting within the capacity of my role as the commander’s maintenance supervisor, I find it difficult to accomplish the task of ensuring that …show more content…

The main emphasis of TPM is getting the team involved and being more proactive in preventative maintenance rather than being reactive towards maintenance in general. The TPM concept itself was developed in Japan during the post-World War II era. TPM evolved from the preventative maintenance concept, whereby a specialized group within a firm would perform maintenance on a piece of equipment to hopefully prevent a breakdown. This group of maintenance workers were in many instances members of maintenance departments and had no true affiliation with the production departments. Operating in this way often leads to the equipment operators not having a sense of pride and ownership in the equipment on which they work every

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