The Management Organizational Structure of a Large-Scale Industrial Complex: The KAMAZ Case

Abstract

The Kama complex of plants for the manufacture of heavy trucks (KAMAZ) was built during the ninth five-year plan period (1971–1975) and started turning out trucks as early as 1976. The complex is situated on the Kama river, a large tributary of the Volga, in the environs of Naberezhnyje Chelny, once a small town of about 17000 inhabitants. Following the construction of KAMAZ the population increased by nearly 20 times and the town became one of the industrial centers of Tataria — an Autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. KAMAZ is one of the largest production complexes in the Soviet automobile industry. Its designed capacity is 150000 trucks per year, each with a hauling power of up to 20 tons in the trailer version. For its own consumption and for contractual deliveries KAMAZ must produce 250000 powerful diesel engines per year, complete with gearboxes, and a huge amount of subunits, spare parts, and cast and formed blanks. In order to comprehend better the concentration of production facilities, suffice it to say that KAMAZ would have been capable of producing 2–3 million cars.