Broadening competence for a flexible production

Workforce planning is a strategic key factor in the efficient use of the organisation’s resources. By promoting and utilizing the workforce’s kowledge, skills, education and competence the organisation can achieve long-term success.The purpose of this work is to investigate how planning and management of the operators competence can be reflected in the production. The primary questions that are intended to be answered in this work are:In which ways can a production prove to be vulnerable in terms of the competence among operators and their quantities?What effects can be achieved by broadening the competence among operators thru learning multiple machines? And how will it be possible to achieve a broadening of the competence?The aim of this case study is to present suggestions on how the competence among operators can be increased to achieve a more flexible production.The result showed that the production became vulnerable in flexibility in form of transfering personnel between machines and to replace absence when the quantity of operators has been strictly adapted to the number of machines. Since the operators received no opportunity to develop their competence they were instead limited to their orginal workplace. A competence matrix on minifactory level containing current state, target and activity list were presented as one of the suggestions to easier identify where the operators competence level is