World Class Manufacturing

World class manufacturing is a collection of concepts, which set standard for production and manufacturing for another organization to follow. Japanese manufacturing is credited with pioneer in concept of world-class manufacturing. World class manufacturing was introduced in the automobile, electronic and steel industry.

World class manufacturing is a process driven approach where various techniques and philosophy are used in one combination or other.

Some of the techniques are as follows:

• Make to order
• Streamlined Flow
• Smaller lot sizes
• Collection of parts
• Doing it right first time
• Cellular or group manufacturing
• Total preventive maintenance
• Quick replacement
• Zero Defects
• Just in Time
• Increased consistency
• Higher employee involvement
• Cross Functional Teams
• Multi-Skilled employees
• Visual Signaling
• Statistical process control

Idea of using above techniques is to focus on operational efficiency, reducing wastage and creating cost efficient organization. This leads to creation of high-productivity organization, which used concurrent production techniques rather than sequential production method.