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 and 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 of their processes and prepares management to enable them to do it
• Details an audit process for tracking progress and ensuring sustainability
• Includes a CD with color versions of the images in the book as well as a sample Manufacturing Excellence Audit, a sample Communications Plan, and a sample Training Plan that can all be easily customized for the readers use

This resource-rich book will allow you to spell out leadership expectations and provide your employees and associates with a clear understanding of their individual roles. Helping you keep everyone in your organization focused during the quest toward sustainable manufacturing excellence. the accompanying CD supplies the tools you and your team will need to pursue it with passion, confidence, and urgency.

Preface
Introduction
The Author

Section I : The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence
Chapter 1 : The Manufacturing Excellence Strategy
Chapter 2 : Manufacturing Principle 1 : Safety
Chapter 3 : Manufacturing Principle 2 : Good Housekeeping and Organization
Chapter 4 : Manufacturing Principle 3 : Authorized Formal Systems
Chapter 5 : Manufacturing Principle 4 : Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
Chapter 6 : Manufacturing Principle 5 : Process Capability
Chapter 7 : Manufacturing Principle 6 : Project Quality
Chapter 8 : Manufacturing Principle 7 : Delivery Performance
Chapter 9 : Manufacturing Principle 8 : Visual Management
Chapter 10 : Manufacturing Principle 9 : Continuous Improvement
Chapter 11 : Manufacturing Principle 10 : Communication
Chapter 12 : Manufacturing Principle 11 : Training
Chapter 13 : Manufacturing Principle 12 : Operator-Led Process Control

Section II : Leading Manufacturing Excellence
Chapter 14 : The Plant Manager's Role
Chapter 15 : The Manufacturing Manager's Role
Chapter 16 : The Materials Manager's Role
Chapter 17 : The Process Engineering Manager's Role
Chapter 18 : The Maintenance Manager's Role
Chapter 19 : The Quality Manager's Role
Chapter 20 : The Human Resource Manager's Role
Chapter 21 : The Finance Manager's Role
Chapter 22 : Sustaining Manufacturing Excellence

Section III : Appendices
Appendix A : The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence
Appendix B : Manufacturing Excellence Reading List, 1986-2010
Appendix C : Formulas for Selected Metrics
Index