World Class Manufacturing In the face of increasing competition many companies are being forced to continuously improve their manufacturing operations. Today manufacturing strategy must support overall business strategy and indeed, many companies are looking to manufacturing to give them competitive advantage in the marketplace, eg, the best quality product, the lowest product cost, the shortest lead-time, the best customer service. World Class Manufacturing is a way of achieving this competitive advantage from manufacturing. It is the pursuit of superior performance in quality, lead-time, cost and customer service through continuous improvement using principles such as just in time manufacturing, total quality management and employee involvement. World class companies optimise the problem solving abilities of their employees in applying both modern techniques and traditional industrial engineering techniques. AMT Ireland will enable the company to develop a manufacturing improvement plan and implement that plan. The manufacturing improvement plan will form the basis for a full-scale world class manufacturing journey.   Tools and Expertise MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Optimised Layout Cell Layouts Inventory Reduction WIP Reduction Set-up Reduction Batch Size Reduction Total Productive Maintenance Scheduling JIT/Kanban Pull Production DFM / Group Technology Automation EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT Culture Change Teams Communication Information Flow Company Focus on Improvement Group focus on Improvement Improvement Plans Multiple Task Responsibility Cross Training Training Communication Total Quality Management Leadership Policy & Strategy People Management Resources Processes Quality Tools Quality Techniques SPC Poka Yoka People Satisfaction Customer Satisfaction Business Results

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