Your Company’s Operating System

Daily Cost Digital Capital & Commercial

Management Deployment Transformation Equipment Excellence
System (CD) (DT) Management (CE) What is it?
(DMS) (CEM)
All employees engaging in
Leadership & Steering

continuous improvement
Focused Quality Autonomous Machine Supply Chain
Improvement Management Maintenance Management through a pillar system that is
Reliability
(FI) (QM) (AM) (MR) (SCM) embedded into our
organizational structures and
becomes the way we do
People Development (PD) business.

5S Workplace Organization (WO)

Safety & Environmental (SE)

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 What is a Pillar?

Area of…
Sustainment

Expertise Improvement

Pillar*

Pillar Team: a cross-functional team

that focuses on a particular Pillar.
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 Quality Management
Typical Team Members
What
Quality
• Quality assurance, control, Techs
audits, and improvement… to Operators

reduce the total cost of quality Quality

Material
Engineers
Handler
Quality
Team
Leader
Leader

Benefits How
•A3 Practical Problem-Solving
•Eliminate the biggest losses •8D Problem Solving
(external quality, internal quality, •Root Cause Corrective/Preventive Action
scrap, waste and rework) •Kaizen, DMAIC
•Focus on proactive quality and •Six Sigma (Process Capability, Regression,
new products and processes. DOE)
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 Safety & Environmental
Typical Team Members
What
Team
• Compliance and improvement to Leader
reduce risks to our employees and Operators
Maint.
to the environment. Tech
Safety
Leader Material
Handler

Benefits How
•Compliance, Behavior/Habits Change
•Engage 100% of your workforce
•Audits, Opportunity Prioritization
•Eliminate the biggest risks
•A3 Practical Problem-Solving
•Go from reactive incident •Root Cause Corrective / Preventive Actions
management to proactive safety •Kaizen
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 People Development
Typical Team Members
What Team
Leader
•Human Resources with emphasis
on training, development and Supervisor
Operators
recognition.
Training
•Establishes a comprehensive and Specialist
Material
effective Development process HR
Handler
Leader

Benefits How
•Engaging work environment and •ADDIE model
culture •On-boarding, Group & 1-on-1 Training
•Standard Work
•Reduce turnover
•TWI Job Instruction
•Move away from HR compliance •Performance Reviews / Recognition Systems
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 5S Workplace Organization
Typical Team Members
What Team
Leader
Maint.
•Improve workplace organization Tech Operators
and create a culture of discipline. Office
•Establishes a process that sustains Assoc.
and continuously improves 5S Material
Leader Handler

Benefits How
•Improves efficiency and safety
•5S (Sort, Set-in-order, Shine,
•Discipline and engagement
Standardize, Sustain)
•Foundation for other
improvements •Kaizen
•Layered Audits
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 Autonomous Maintenance
Typical Team Members
What
Maint /
•Interaction between production Eng.
operators and production Tech Operators
equipment around Autonomous Team
Maintenance, process design and Leader Material
controls. AM Handler
Leader

Benefits How
•Breaks silos between operations, •Autonomous Maintenance steps
maintenance, and engineering •Quick Changeover (Startup focus)
•Develops operators’ skills, •Kaizen
improves equipment condition,
and reduces losses. •Development of operators’ skills
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 Focused Improvement
Typical Team Members
What QM FI/CI
Leader Leader
•Provides project prioritization SCM Site
process, problem-solving Leader Leader
capabilities, and tools. MR Bottleneck
•Focuses on productivity Leader Leader
improvement DMS CD
Leader Leader

Benefits How
•Ensures focus on the biggest •Project prioritization
opportunities •OEE and Loss Analysis
•Develops project management •Problem-solving and leadership coaching
skills •A3 Practical Problem-Solving, Root
Cause Corrective / Preventive Actions
•Directs the focus of other teams
•Kaizen / DMAIC beltcourse.com
 Machine Reliability
Typical Team Members
What Operator

•Overall machine reliability, Maint.

Engineering Tech
including production and non-
production equipment. Maint.
•Activities to improve OEE. Leader
Maint. Maint.
Parts Planner

Benefits How
•Maintenance Types (Autonomous, Planned,
•Eliminate the biggest losses in Preventive, Predictive).
availability and performance, at •Storeroom Spare Parts Management
lowest costs •Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
•Go from reactive maintenance to •A3 Practical Problem-Solving
predictive maintenance. •FMEA /Reliability-Centered Maintenance
•Kaizen / DMAIC beltcourse.com
 Daily Management System
Typical Team Members
What IT Tech
Team
•Systems and tools used to FI Leaders
communicate and performance, Leader
management of change, escalate Bottleneck
opportunities, provide support. Mgr. Supervisors
Plant
Manager

How
Benefits
•DMS Accountability Process (daily, weekly,
•Escalate issues and suggestions, monthly huddles)
communicate and drive aligned •Suggestion Systems
actions at the right level •Leader Standard Work
•Build coaching and problem- •Gemba Walks / Layered Audit System
solving capabilities •Root Cause Corrective / Preventive Actions
•Metrics tracking / Digital Transformation
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 Cost Deployment
Typical Team Members
What IT CD
Support Leader
•Supports project selection
process, quantifying potential FI/CI
Leader
improvements into $, and tying Accounting
into the budgeting and
productivity tracking processes Finance

Benefits How
•Enhanced project prioritization process
•Alleviates other pillars with the
•Quantify OEE and Loss Analyses into $
financial expertise of the
•P&L and Benchmarking Analyses
finance/accounting stakeholders.
•Support with Standard Financial
•Provides more detailed analyses. Templates, estimated and actual savings
•Budgeting process beltcourse.com
 Capital & Equipment Management
Typical Team Members
What Site
Leader Project
•Identifies and prioritizes new
Leaders
equipment and capital needs, CD
Leader
optimizing capital design,
planning, and installation. Process
Engineer
Owner MR
Leader

How
Benefits •Opportunity prioritization process
•Stay ahead of the competition •Equipment Purchase and Launch
•Lessons learned into equipment •A3 Project Management
•FMEA, Poke-yoke and Andon
and process design
•Machine and Cell Layout design
•Launch equipment at high- •Design of Experiments for process parameters
performance levels •Digital Transformation beltcourse.com
 Supply Chain Management
Typical Team Members
What SCM
Leader Planners /
•Materials management, production Scheduler
planning, demand planning, Material
supply/capacity planning, inventory Handlers Customer
management, procurement, logistics, Service
and warehousing Warehouse
/ Logistics Operations

How
Benefits
• Value Stream Mapping / Process Mapping
•Improve on-time delivery while • Theory of Constraints / S&OP
reducing inventory and shortage risks. • Line Balancing, Flow, Machine/Cell Layout design
•Reduce availability losses and go from • Warehouse Management
reactive scheduling to proactive • Quick Changeover
capacity planning and lead-time • Kanban / Pull Systems, and Just-In-Time
reduction. • A3 Practical Problem-Solving, Kaizen,beltcourse.com
DMAIC
 Commercial Excellence
Typical Team Members
What
•Ensures customer needs are met Customer Sales
Service
and increases margins, customer
relationships, sales, and Design /
innovation. Eng / IT
Product
Leaders Div. / Site
Leaders

How
Benefits • Sales and New Product Development skills
enhancement
•Ensures freed-up capacity is filled • Product Market Fit
up with more sales, new • Digital Transformation
products/services, at higher • Value Stream Mapping / Process Mapping
margins. • Theory of Constraints / Sales & Operations Planning
• A3 Project Management / Kaizen / FMEA
• DMAIC / Regression / Design of Experiments
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 Digital Transformation
Typical Team Members
What Process
Owner
•Educating, trying, and adopting Other Pillar Project
Leaders
new Industry 4.0 technologies to Leader
improve certain areas of the
System
business
IT
Vendor Support

How
Benefits
• Standardize IT systems basics
•Accelerates the other teams’ • Support other teams with technology
activities, increasing efficiency, investigation
• Opportunity prioritization for digital applications
adding value and reducing waste
• Process Mapping
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 Leadership & Steering
Typical Team Members
What OpEx /
CI
•Provides the direction, priorities, Site / Leader
resources, encouragement, Divisional
Leader
support and structure.
Pillar
Leaders

How
Benefits
•Strategic Planning Process / Site Deployment
•Aligned organization towards Plans
common goals, re-balancing •Identification of New Leaders
resources to steer the efforts. •Leadership and OpEx training availability
•Cultural foundations in place
•Get out of firefighting and micro-
•Steering Team Meetings
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 Pillar Teams Drive Performance
Safety People Quality Service Profitability

OEE and Utilization

Sales, Productivity
Quality & Waste

Inventory Turns
Development

Delivery and
Engagement
Employee

Employee
Incidents

& Cost
Pillar
Safety & Environment H H M L L L L

Leadership & Steering M M H M M M M

People Development H H h H M H M

Focused Improvement M H H H M H H

Cost Deployment L L L M L H H

Daily Management System M H H M M h M

Legend: Impact
High Medium Low
Quality Management L h M H L M h

Machine Reliability M H M H M H H

Autonomous Maintenance h H M M

5S Workplace Organization M H M M L L L

Supply Chain Management L M M L H H M

Commercial Excellence L M M M H M H

Capital & Equipment Management H M M M M M H

Digital Transformation M M H M M
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 Your Company’s Operating System

Daily Cost Digital Capital & Commercial

Management Deployment Transformation Equipment Excellence
System (CD) (DT) Management (CE) What is it?
(DMS) (CEM)
All employees engaging in
Leadership & Steering

continuous improvement
Focused Quality Autonomous Machine Supply Chain
Improvement Management Maintenance Management through a pillar system that is
Reliability
(FI) (QM) (AM) (MR) (SCM) embedded into our
organizational structures and
becomes the way we do
People Development (PD) business.

5S Workplace Organization (WO)

Safety & Environmental (SE)

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