Hajime yamashina biography of martin

  • Hajime yamashina biography of martin

    • Hajime yamashina biography of martin

  • Hajime yamashina biography of martin
  • Selection of Professor Yamashina’s presentations on WCM at baidu.com(don’t mind the design, the content is the important thing)
  • See full list on better-operations.com
  • World Class Manufacturing is Chrysler’s Universal Language, Industry Week, Aug 15. 2012
  • Information on the WCM Academy in Warren, MI

    • See full list on better-operations.com...

    What Does World Class Manufacturing Look Like in a Connected Worker World?

    World Class Manufacturing (WCM) is the latest of the “XPS” production frameworks, launched in 2005 with the main objectives of increasing quality and reducing production costs.

    WCM was invented by FIAT and Hajime Yamashina, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan, and is the latest continuous improvement approach driving the tenets of many new company production systems. It is now deployed in 162 plants at FIAT Chrysler Automobiles, but has been adopted widely by many prominent manufacturers, including Unilever and Atlas Copco.

    WCM has the following 20 operational and managerial principles, many of which would be familiar to those who have been part of a continuous improvement initiative.

    The bolded pillars stand out as key principles that benefit the most from industrial work technologies available today, and will be further explored in this post.

    Technical Pillars

    Managerial Pillars