Our Path To The Next Level.: 2007 CATERPILLAR Annual Report
Our Path To The Next Level.: 2007 CATERPILLAR Annual Report
Our Path To The Next Level.: 2007 CATERPILLAR Annual Report
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continue to deliver record profit and growth, were starting to see real traction in the second year of our transformative Caterpillar Production System (CPS).
CPS has been a new way to ask good questions. The way we worked before, it was always the same questions. CPS is a different way of thinking, another way to find new solutions.
Were beginning to involve suppliers in CPS now to improve capacity, delivery time and quality. The idea is to help them understand CPS and how it can improve performance. And giving them avenues to engage in CPS processes.
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We worked out a process to review and regularly clean the machines on our line instead of waiting until the machines are not clean and then telling maintenance to come. This came not from training, but from the communication between shifts related to CPS. We said, We need to work on this. And we did.
What were learning with CPS is problems are a group issue. Its not an individuals problem, its the teams problem. So people are finding solutions together. People from different shifts. That way more people see whats going on, and they all can see the progress, too.
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