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Alcoa's Michigan Casting Center runs the business from the bottom up

✍ Scribed by Groszkiewicz, Dan ;Warren, Brent


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
247 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
1531-1864

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

A manufacturing facility set out to tackle serious production problems and workforce instability. With each level of improvement came an even deeper understanding of other problems and opportunities. Now, five years later, a new operating philosophy, organizational structure, flow of processes, and set of tools enable the hourly associates to run the plant and managers to focus on more strategic issues—and a once‐troubled business is now healthy and competitive. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.