Organizational control is essential for assessing how well an organization is performing, identifying areas of concern, and taking the necessary action. An inflow division filter system has an adjustable landfill placed at the inlet of each filter cell. The affluent landfill is the main component of the system, with a supply pipe or channel common to all filter cells carrying water to the individual landfills. The inlet dumps are adjustable, so that each one can be placed at the same height to obtain an even division of the flow.
Auxiliary equipment often includes an affluent control valve and a hydraulic effluent control point to maintain a minimum water level in a filter cell. The affluent control valve is used to stop the incoming flow if it is necessary to remove the cell from service, for example, during a backwash case. The hydraulic control point for the effluent can consist of a downstream landfill or an inverted circuit in the effluent pipe. Constant level control is similar to controlling the flow rate of effluent, since the detection system compares current conditions with the desired set points and works together with the control valve to align the two conditions. In a constant level control system, the level sensing device determines the actual water level and compares it with the set point.
The comparison method depends on the sensing device, the control valve actuator, and the communication controller. Decreasing velocity filtration is one of the oldest and simplest methods of filter control. Used with multiple filter cells, the larger the number of cells, the better the performance. The main component of this system is its filter media. Operational control, unlike strategic control, has to do with executing strategy. When operational controls are imposed, they work within a framework established by strategy.
Normally, goals, objectives, and standards are established for main subsystems of an organization such as business units, projects, products, functions, and centers of responsibility (Mattews, 1999). Typical operational control measures include return on investment (ROI), net profit, cost, and product quality. These control measures are essentially summations of more detailed control measures. Corrective measures based on operational controls can have implications for strategic controls when they involve changes in strategy. In short, operational control is a process that ensures tasks and transactions are delivered efficiently and effectively.
Other approaches related to operational control include quality control, risk management, and performance management. These approaches help organizations improve efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer service.An operational control system together with medium configuration, lower drain system, and backwash process is an important consideration because it determines how water flows through a filter. As its name suggests - “quality circle” - identifying behaviors that would improve product quality and operations management processes that create products was a formal task of many quality circles. The signals from flow sensor, speed controller and valve can be pneumatic, electrical, mechanical or a combination of these. Financial control involves managing costs and expenses of a company in order to keep them in line with budgeted amounts. Operational control is a process that checks if specific tasks or transactions are being delivered efficiently and effectively.
Control systems emerged within an organization not by accident but as a response to company's need to monitor work of employees to promote high performance. With plan in place it may be up to you to determine organizational, leadership or control challenges organization faces. The operational control process (also called business control) allows strategic plans to be converted into operational plans. In general executives should understand that management trends often contain fundamental truth that can help organizations improve but that in most organizations balance is needed between production behavior and clan control. Finally feedback controls involve gathering information about completed activity evaluating that information and taking steps to improve similar activities in future. In particular various rules and procedures are used to standardize or dictate behavior (Figure 9 18 “Behavioral Controls”).
For existing installations understanding how operational control systems work is important because it helps operators improve water quality and maintenance since faults can damage filter bed and cause sudden changes in filtration rate. Basic topics such as customer service and valuation of company itself are very useful but these elements of clan control often cannot replace employees for their performance. In addition to creating appropriate organizational structure effective execution of strategy depends on skillful use of organizational control systems. Operational controls are essential for assessing how well an organization is performing its tasks and transactions. It helps identify areas where improvement is needed so that corrective action can be taken accordingly. This type of organizational control involves setting goals and objectives for different subsystems such as business units, projects, products, functions etc., as well as measuring performance against those goals using metrics such as return on investment (ROI), net profit margin etc. Quality circles are also used as part of operational controls where behaviors that would improve product quality are identified along with operations management processes that create products.
Constant level controls involve comparing current conditions with desired set points using level sensing devices while decreasing velocity filtration uses multiple filter cells for better performance. Financial controls involve managing costs and expenses within budgeted amounts while feedback controls involve gathering information about completed activities so that similar activities can be improved in future. Finally behavioral controls involve using rules and procedures to standardize or dictate behavior while understanding how operational systems work helps operators improve water quality and maintenance.
