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Mr. Andy Aviаtоr frоm the cаse study wаnts tо be more efficient and effective in his quest for growth. This will require implementing some manufacturing technology trends. Please identify and explain THREE manufacturing technology trends from your text that would be suitable for Northern Lights Landing Gear's production plans, now and in the next few years. (15 marks) Use terms from your text. AI generated answers will receive a mark of zero.
Cоmpаny President, Andy Aviаtоr, stаted this week in The Edmоnton Journal that the aircraft landing gear-making company created by his grandfather "has not lived up to the high standards we set for ourselves." He also acknowledged that rapid globalization and lack of manufacturing quality control, especially in certain processing plant locations, has weakened the company's capacity to respond to complaints and manufacturing safety information. He noted that when European production problems with the new GEAR-3000 series of landing gear brake assembly production equipment were discovered and repaired, the company did not alert its North American counterparts who also use the same equipment. "We failed to connect the dots," he wrote. Secrecy and scapegoating have worsened Northern Lights Landing Gear's troubles. The company relies on the European aviation industry for most of its profit and nearly all its growth, yet decision-making remains centralized in Canada, where top executives have been slow to reveal quality and safety problems that have led to landing gear parts issues in Europe. How did Northern Lights Landing Gear lose its way? The core reason, according to a number of aviation industry experts, is that the landing gear-maker outgrew its human expertise. "Northern Lights Landing Gear cannot develop production experts and landing gear industry management experts as fast as they can start up new production facilities," said Dr. Lockheed Constellation, a professor of aviation management at the University of Alberta and author of three books on Northern Lights Landing Gear's landing gear production dynasty. "Northern Lights Landing Gear's industry expertise is being stretched too thinly and is creating more opportunity for errors in processing and management." Before the avalanche of growth, Northern Lights Landing Gear took about five years to train first-class production and landing gear industry management experts in Northern Lights Landing Gear's specific processing needs, Dr. Constellation said. These production and landing gear-making experts had time to absorb company values and practices that gave them an intuitive feel for weighing quality demands against cost concerns. These included how to negotiate with suppliers on cost without getting inferior raw materials, and how to deal with Northern Lights Landing Gear's very specialized landing gear-making machinery, said Dr. Avro Arrow, a professor of aviation economics at the University of Calgary and an expert on global aviation manufacturing. "So much of what made the company work well was that each manager was trained personally by a mentor who had long experience with the company," she said. "When the fast expansion came, Northern Lights Landing Gear was very short of senior production managers and landing gear-making experts who were ready to become mentors. My sense is that decisions were made more on numbers, without understanding fully the long-term impact those decisions would have on the company." Identify two possible organizational structures from your text that Northern Lights Landing Gear could use and list one important advantage and one important disadvantage for each kind of organizational structure. Outline which structure you think is best and describe why Northern Lights Landing Gear should use that particular structure. Use examples from the case study to prove your statements. AI generated responses will receive a mark of zero. (10 marks)