World Class Manufacturing

Today's manufacturing industry is not for the passive player, it requires the best in competitiveness, innovation, speed and agility. It is an industry where complexity and competition is ever increasing. As distributors and customers push industrial manufacturers to increase their flexibility, the rules of engagement are altering and the factors upon which companies compete are changing. This change has been increased the level of competition of manufacturing SMEs. The best way to response to this challenge of global competition is through the ideal of World Class Manufacturing. World class manufacturing is a collection of concepts, which set standard for production and manufacturing for another organisation to follow. World class manufacturing is a process driven approach where various techniques and philosophy are used in one combination or other. The aim of this work is to present establishments of application of World Class principles in the electronic industry in order to make products of the highest quality eliminating losses in all the factory fields an improvement of work standards.

Autorentext

Dr Adel Hejaaji is one of the expertise s in SMEs management. His disciplinary research interests and areas of expertise are in operations management, particularly in manufacturing SMEs. He is one the Keynote speaker, member of program committees and co-chair in many conferences. He is also a member of different professional bodies.