Great Lakes is teaming with productivity.(involvement of shop floor teams in improving manufacture and operation methods)

From: Foundry Management & Technology | Date: February 1, 1999 | Copyright information

Great Lakes Castings Corp of Ludington, MI, created shop floor teams that allow employees to use their casting experience and creativity to contribute to effectively correcting manufacturing problems and improving operations. Teams meet for 10 to 15 minutes at the start of their shift to deliberate on current shop floor problems. Each employee was also allotted $500 every month to fund individually designed projects. Also, the company relied on a computer system to identify priority tasks req...

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