Learn from the industry champions!
How do companies manage to produce high quality and yet economical products? High efficient manufacturing has a lot to do with sophisticated methods which we have been using successfully for a long time.
Like for example: Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, Poka-Yoke, Production Planning & Control (PP&C), Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). That is what we call World Class Manufacturing (WCM). Do not be afraid of the Japanese or technical terms – there is merely one strategy behind them: we optimize different KPI`s like productivity, quality, capacity and tied up capital. In a joint approach we improve service levels, reduce lead times and inventory, motivate employees and make the production more flexible.
Take a look at how we have approved these methods of lean production across the different industry fields.