The Organizational Improvement of the Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Fort Worth, Texas, 1969-1988: a Case Study of Forces Responsible for Organizational Change
This study documents that external and internal forces were causes of change at VCWTP. External forces caused. Fort Worth to reorganize and introduce new management at VCWTP after 1982. These improvements led to VCWTP being selected best managed wastewater treatment plant in the nation by EPA in 1988. This study first analyzes external and internal forces responsible for changes at VCWTP. A history of plant operations also is reviewed. Personnel interviews were conducted of perceptions of employees. Finally, statistics obtained of the plant operation from 1969 to 1988 are compared with personal interviews. Five forces effect change at VCWTP; population, regulatory requirements, political conflicts, an organizational and managerial factors. Turnaround occurred as external and internal corrections were made.
Production planning is one of the important activities in the company, each of its activities involve decision making. To be able to meet the ::: demand of its customers continuously, companies must have good planning. Therefore, this paper discusses the application of Fuzzy ::: inference system Tsukamoto for decision making in production planning at the company's crude palm oil [CPO). The purpose of this ::: research is to assist the production manager to determine the optimal number of CPO production, so that it can more effectively and ::: efficiently. Data on production, inventory and demand in 2014 as inputs. There are three steps to solve the problem using FIS Tsukamoto ::: i.e. Fuzzification, Inference and Defuzzification. The result obtained is the number of optimal inventory and production as well as higher ::: profit