What is World Class Manufacturing?

World Class Manufacturing is the phrase used to describe the steps a business is able to take that will help it optimise its production process, and increase overall efficiency, product quality, productivity, and profitability. It consists of a combination of concepts, and tools to help a business become a global leader in its field, whilst reducing manufacturing costs. The main pillars of World Class Manufacturing are: 

Customer Focus

Customer Focus is a priority for every World Class Manufacturing business, with a keen understanding on the needs of its customers. Whether this is the balance between the cost and quality of the parts it produces, or the level of investment in new or improved capabilities, or the ability to flex production levels in line with demand, a world class business is able to understand and meet what its customers require.

Costs

Another pillar of World Class Manufacturing is identifying areas of your business where unnecessary costs may be reduced, through analysing every step of your production process, and setting strict spending targets.

Continuous Improvement

In order to achieve World Class Manufacturing, a philosophy of continuous improvement must be adopted by a company. This means that every aspect of production must be assessed continuously, with improvements made where necessary.

Lean Manufacturing

Any waste identified at any step of the production line is identified and removed, through streamlining your processes. This includes reducing unnecessary inventory, overproduction habits, overly-long lead times, defects, issues with transportation and delivery, as well as ensuring that you are effectively utilising the skills of all your employees.  Taking a Just-In-Time approach to production is part of removing waste, and stipulates that the correct quantity of finished product is produced at the right time, to prevent excess product needing to be stored, awaiting delivery, removing the costs that this incurs.

Safety

A key part of ensuring you are meeting World Class Manufacturing goals is that the safety of employees working as part of your production process is prioritised. This can be through the form of maintaining strict health and safety policies, training, and procedures.

Wheatley Plastics is committed to achieving World Class Manufacturing through our customer focussed, ‘just-in-time’ approach to plastic manufacturing. Through this, and our continuous improvement programs, we have garnered a reputation for excellence for overall customer satisfaction. With over 70 years of providing state of the art plastic manufacturing solutions, we are experienced in working with long time frames and providing reliable delivery schedules, going the extra mile to satisfy our customers. If you have an upcoming project, contact Wheatley Plastics today.

About Wheatley Plastics

For 70 years, Wheatley Plastics has been a leading supplier of plastic injection moulding services with expertise across a wide range of industries including electronics, medical, packaging, construction, retail, and plumbing.

From our Stockport manufacturing site, we have the machine capacity to produce high-volume orders of small and large plastic products. Our team also has the expertise, patience and technical know-how to meet low-volume, high-value orders subject to customer needs.

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