What is World Class Manufacturing?

By Business Solutions Lead | February 22, 2019

An excellent overview of WCM can be found at Better-Operations.com

https://better-operations.com/2013/05/22/world-class-manufacturing-at-chrysler-and-fiat/

The World Class Manufacturing programme at Chrysler, Fiat & Co. – better operations

World Class Manufacturing at Chrysler, Fiat & Co.

Some quick notes from the article include:

  • The company-specific production system (XPS) of Chrysler is the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) concept, developed by the Fiat Group in 2006. “WCM is how we do our business. Period.”
  • WCM was developed by Fiat and partnering firms in 2005.
  • The Chrysler Group joined the WCM when Fiat acquired majority shares in 2009
  • Today, 166 manufacturing plants in 16 countries are active partners in the worldwide WCM Association. 30 of these are Chrysler plants, whereas 45 belong to Fiat.
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