Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business Growth

Extended Case Studies

Introduction to Case Studies

In the pages that follow, we will look at three companies that have traveled down the road to achieving Operational Excellence and leveraged their operations to enable and drive top-line growth. We’ll look at how IDEX and Parker Hannifin, both large, publicly traded corporations, were able to apply the design guidelines throughout their facilities on a global basis to create flow through a mixture of machining, fabrication, and assembly processes across a broad range of precision-engineered products. Once the flow had been installed, they leveraged their flow to work on offense. This offense came ...