Definition of Indirect Labor

Manufacturing forklifts

• Truck unloads.
• Supplying workshops with material or semi-finished products from a supplier UPA or a store, either at the edge of the line or in a buffer stock in the workshop.
• Internal handling in the workshop.
• Warehousing, internal handling of raw materials, work in progress and finished product stores.
• The evacuation of finished products to the Finished Products store or directly into the trucks as the case may be.
• …

Logistics forklift drivers are not included in this scope.

Adjusters, manufacturing assistants or “technical leaders”

• Initial conditioning, small maintenance interventions
• Manufacturing change (exchange of tools, robot program, material composition, etc.)
• Monitoring of machine peripherals (regulation system, automatic material supply system, etc.)
• …

As a general rule, adjusters, pilots or assistants perform tasks whose complexity prevents them from being delegated to unauthorized operators.

Workshop technicians

• Carrying out improvement work in collaboration with production methods
• Animation of manufacturing performance improvement groups (SMED, TRS, etc.)

Manufacturing personnel responsible for the routine maintenance of a tool

• Maintenance or upkeep work.
• Cleaning of manufacturing areas

Manufacturing inspectors or retouchers

• Staff continuously assigned to carry out control operations outside the production flow. These are irregular operations that cannot be timed
• Staff permanently assigned to performing touch-up operations outside of the production flow.

The structure (also called Framing)

This is a classification of ME staff according to their function.

MANUFACTURING:

Anyone attached to production as well as his hierarchy: UP or UPA manager, his secretary, UTA manager, UTA technicians, supervisors.

SUPPLIES:

Anyone ensuring the scheduling, supply, logistics and transport of production: head of the flow, OLA or logistics department, suppliers, reception / shipment managers (excluding quality), warehouse workers, forklift truck operators.

MAINTENANCE – TOOLS:

Anyone providing upkeep and maintenance of plant assets and anyone working in the tooling manufacturing department: maintenance department manager, his secretary, maintenance department manager, secretary, tooling department manager, secretary, maintenance coordinator , maintenance technicians, maintenance technicians, maintenance agents, maintenance agents, tool technicians and qualified tool agents.

PURCHASES :

Anyone whose main function is to buy: purchasing manager, his secretary, buyers.

NB: People who have been delegated by the purchasing department to place orders but whose main activity corresponds to another function (eg: maintenance) will be attached to their original department and not to the purchasing function.

METHODS :

Anyone working in plant methods: head of plant methods or technical services, methods technicians, progress plan manager.

MANAGEMENT CONTROL, FINANCIAL CONTROL:

Anyone assigned to management control and accounting of the UP or UPA: manager, accountant, cost price manager (when the person is registered in this department).

COMPUTER SCIENCE:

Anyone ensuring the proper functioning of the information systems used in UP or UPA and in UTA: factory IT correspondent.

GENERAL SERVICES:

Anyone assigned to a service of general interest: doctor, nurse, person in charge of mail delivery, guards.

ADMINISTRATION :

The site director and his secretary are in Administration.

HUMAN RESSOURCES :

Anyone assigned to the site and / or UP or UPA personnel department: human resources manager, his secretary, employment manager, pointeaux, communication manager, safety coordinator, training coordinator, social advisor.

QUALITY :

Anyone attached to the UP or UPA quality service: quality manager, series quality technician, quality section manager, quality technician, quality coordinator, quality coordinator, quality technical agent.