The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

IIIIndustry Case Studies

Introduction

A major goal of this book is to demonstrate that POLCA is not just a theoretical concept; it has been implemented in factories around the world with impressive results. Part III of this book documents six such implementations, with case studies from the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and Germany. The companies involved range in size from a large multinational to a factory with only a dozen employees! Industrial applications span from the more common metalworking operations such as extrusion, metal-cutting, and fabrication, to more unusual factories such as glass and even pharmaceuticals. It was important to us that you, the reader, should experience these case studies from the eyes of ...