New Delhi, April 22 -- Europe's most valuable company, ASML, plans to cut a wide range of management roles as part of a broader push to simplify its organisation and improve efficiency, according to internal documents seen by Business Insider, which reported the development on 21 April.

The move follows ASML's January announcement that it would cut up to 1,700 jobs and restructure its organizational chart to focus on engineering, after employees and customers complained about the company's highly inefficient, complex structure.

The chipmaking giant also told its staff that it would reduce the number of architects (senior technical roles) responsible for coordinating projects and give them more clearly defined responsibilities within the...