Hajime yamashina biography

Selection of Professor Yamashina’s presentations on WCM at baidu.com(don’t mind the design, the content is the important thing)

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World Class Manufacturing is Chrysler’s Universal Language, Industry Week, Aug 15. 2012

Information on the WCM Academy in Warren, MI

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The company-specific production system (XPS) of Chrysler is the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) concept developed by the Fiat Group in 2006.

But what exactly is the WCM? And, what does Chrysler see as keys to success in WCM?

A few answers are given these days at the 4th annual Lean Management Journal Conference in Birmingham, UK: in his morning keynote, Mauro Pino—Vice President for vehicle assembly operations and the Head of World Class Manufacturing in the Chrysler Group—explains how Chrysler “achieves manufacturing excellence across the globe.” Pino stresses that “WCM is how we do our business.

Period.” The presentation reminds me of the WCM factories I visited in Brazil, Spain and Sweden last year, all of which confirmed that WCM can be a powerful improvement system—if implemented seriously. Let’s take a closer look at the concept of WCM.

The development of World Class Manufacturing

WCM was developed by Fiat and partnerin