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IW Best Plants
The goal of IW's Best Plants award program is to recognize plants, located in North America, that are on the leading edge of efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments.
 IW Best Plants 2007 -- Models of Success
IndustryWeek's 2007 Best Plants deliver many routes to operational excellence.
The IndustryWeek Best Plants program is an annual celebration of world-class manufacturing and continuous improvement practices within North American companies. All well and good, but when it comes to determining which 10 factories are truly the "best plants," perhaps the most important distinction is their effectiveness.
Read on to see the 2007 winners.
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IW Best Plants Winners |
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Continuous Improvement E-Newsletter
Pick up pointers from the top manufacturers in North America, and identify action steps that can make your facility shine. The Continuous Improvement e-newsletter will give you previously unpublished best practices, benchmarking charts, and lessons learned -- straight from the winners and finalists of IndustryWeek's annual Best Plants competition.
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Continuous Improvement Online Conference
7/16/2008
The foundation of continuous improvement is the belief that your organization can always be doing better. Operations can be more efficient. Quality can be improved. Costs can be reduced. And your company can be more profitable -- if only everyone worked a little harder and smarter!
This free online conference can help. It'll help you evaluate processes to make them work better. You'll hear from industry experts and other manufacturers. Sign up for as many sessions as you'd like.
Why the Lean Enterprise Needs Lean Accounting
7/24/2008
If your company is implementing Lean manufacturing practices, it should be aligning financial functions with Lean business processes, using Lean Accounting. Attend this webcast to learn what Lean Accounting is, why it's important, and how it provides managerial and financial reporting for the Lean enterprise.
In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant: Increase Production Performance and Optimize Manufacturing Asset Use
7/31/2008
Learn how to strive toward the goal of the perfect plant -- by improving key performance indicators, optimizing fulfillment, increasing yields, and better addressing challenges caused by disparities of solutions and data. Webcast speakers will address the top challenges discrete manufacturers face in today's market, and they'll suggest strategies and steps for achieving operational excellence.
Managing Global Industrial Manufacturing Operations for Efficiency and Growth
6/26/2008
Find out how top companies are sustaining quality, achieving asset efficiency, and communicating effectively within global operations. Learn about the tools companies used to build relationships with overseas suppliers and customers. You hear case studies and see data from an extensive survey of IndustryWeek readers on globalization trends.
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