Customer Focused Manufacturing
Length: 27 minutes
Part of the award-winningÿManufacturing Insights Video SeriesTo meet the changing needs of customers and ensure profitability over the years to come, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation successfully transformed their manufacturing system to a more flexible, short lead-time system by adopting cellular manufacturing,ÿkaizen, and Just-In-Time production techniquesIn the process, they realized remarkable improvements in productivity and profitability.ÿCustomer Focused Manufacturingÿpresents the innovative techniques they used for creating a highly flexible workforce and details the steps they used when implementing a cell, from appointing a cell facilitator to starting production.

