The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence
The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence
Explaining how to implement and sustain a top-down strategy for manufacturing excellence, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence provides a comprehensive, proven approach for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating the right culture through leadership and mentoring. Tapping into four decades of leadership experience, 35 years of it in the manufacturing industry, Larry Fast explains how to achieve vertical and horizontal alignment across your organization. He details a clear pathway to excellence via the 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence and provides a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by function. Emphasizing the importance of using Lean and Six Sigma tools to improve your business, the book: Integrates strategy and leadership development Paves a path for culture change–Operator-Led Process Control (OLPC)—that prepares hourly employees to take control o
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Great guide,
Author Larry Fast’s book is a great and inclusive way to audit operations, pick good goals and execute. For further help, this book includes a CD, but by just working with the text, manufacturing and supply management leaders will find a way to make sense out of wide-ranging signals from mixed product operations. If you are working in a company that has many plants, differing cultures, different products and differing cycles, the temptation to pick the wrong improvement methods is there. It’s all about focus, and Fast’s approach to instilling clear focus in the organization, supported by good numbers, is a great place to start. Pay particular attention to Appendix D, page 225, Formulas for Selected Metrics – these are the basic performance measurement and trouble-shooting metrics you will want understood, in the same language, through your plants and even your suppliers. As Dorian Shainin taught us, “Let the data lead you!”
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