2POLCA Explained: How It Works
This chapter gives an introduction to the key features of POLCA. The aim is to provide an overview of how POLCA works, so that you can understand the operational benefits of POLCA discussed in the next chapter. Additional details on the POLCA system and on implementing POLCA will follow in Part II of this book.
POLCA is designed to address two significant trends in the manufacturing world today. The first is that, in keeping with the latest thinking on effective organizational structures, companies are reorganizing their shop floor operations into manufacturing cells, which we will henceforth refer to simply as cells. A more precise discussion on cells in the context of POLCA will follow in Chapter 4, but for ...
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