Lean Healthcare West. Manufacturing - Supply Chain Management. NSF has been instrumental in helping to modernize manufacturing systems.
In 1927, Henry Ford's Rouge complex near Detroit began churning out a ceaseless stream of Model A cars. The Rouge facility was perhaps the ultimate expression of mass production and "vertical integration," in which a company tries to cushion itself from the vagaries of the market by owning or controlling virtually every aspect of its business, from the mines that provide the ore to the factories that make the glass. Raw materials—iron ore, coal, and rubber, all from Ford-owned mines and plantations—came in through one set of gates at the plant while finished cars rolled out the other. Ford's vision informed how manufacturing was done for most of the twentieth century, but by the late 1970s the limitations of this approach had started to become obvious, at least to the Japanese. The TWI Institute - Your resource for training, education & connections for the TWI community.
SkillPath Seminars.