World Class Manufactures

These developments, employed by companies now called World Class Manufacturers (WCM), must be examined by the company management who are contemplating establishing a new factory or expanding or reorganizing an existing plant. 

Schonberger, R. J., World Class Manufacturing, The Free Press, New York. 

Both RO/EDI and RO/MB have overtaken twin-bed DI/MB as preferred technologies, and it is likely that RO/EDI will eventually emerge as the ultimate winner because of its lack of any chemical requirements for regeneration. However, there are several excellent EDI designs currently available in the marketplace from world-class manufacturers. As these designs are different, they do not all provide identical performance under specific operating conditions. Examples of EDI designs/manufacturers are ... 

Nolen, J., Computer Aided Process Planning for World-Class Manufacturing, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1989. 

Enkawa, T. (1998), Production Efficiency Paradigms Interrelationship among 3T—TPM, TQC/ TQM, and TPS (JIT), in 1998 World-Class Manufacturing and JIPM-TPM Conference (Singapore), pp. 1-9. 

Compton, W. D. (1997), The Management of World-Class Manufacturing Enterprises. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 

There has been considerable hyperbole regarding world class manufacturing (WCM) and many articles and books have been written on the subject. There have been a number of interpretations of WCM. 

Network performance World class manufacturing at factory level is not sufficient. Presently success depends on a unit performing as an integral part of the network. The gradual increase in outsourcing is creating more dependence on network performance. 

Harrison, A. and Storey, J. (2000) Coping with world class manufacturing. New Technology, Work and Employment, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 643-64. 

Shunta, J. P., Achieving World Class Manufacturing Through Process Control, Prentice Hall PTR, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995. 

Manufacturers have been unwilling to stray far from production builder technologies and methods. World class manufacturing strategies such as Total Quality, Continuous Flow... 

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