Section 2
Leading Manufacturing
Excellence
Readers should now understand the manufacturing excellence strategy as
well as the thinking behind the four stages of manufacturing excellence
and how they can be applied to each of the 12 principles. Now it’s time to
focus on whether the incumbent talent in the plant is capable of leading
the cultural and performance revolution on the shop oor. at’s what the
second half of this book is all about.
Starting with the plant manager, I will share my observations and expe-
riences. en we’ll go right around the leadership team table and review
the positions that typically represent the sta of a manufacturing plant.
(You may want to revisit the organization charts discussed in Chapter 1.)
Does each functiona ...