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AMERICAS BESTPLANT MODEL

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AMERICAS BEST PLANT MODEL

In 1990, Industry Week magazine established a

prestigious new competition, the America's Best

Plants Award, designed to recognize and honor the

top manufacturing operations in the nation. To date,sixty-two companiesfrom such well-known

names as Hewlett-Packard, Sony Electronics,

Steelcase, and Xerox to smaller companies such

as Zytec, John Crane Belfab, and LordCorporationhave earned the illustrious

designation of being one of America's Best Plants

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The book begins with the nine essential

components of world-class manufacturing, their

individual make-up, and how they interact with

each other. These componentscustomerfocus, quality, agility, employee involvement,

strong supplier relations, technology, new

product development, green manufacturing,

community involvementcome together tocreate the basis of manufacturing excellence and

will serve as a road map for improving your

organization, your products, and your people

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Profiles of each of the 62 Best Plant winners

celebrate individual excellence in the field.

Highlighting these profiles are on-site visit reports

by Industry Week editors; detailed coverage of themany unique programs, tools, and techniques

currently in use at each plant; and a listing of

contact information for individual plants. Also

included is a complete set of the winners' statisticalmeasurements for use in benchmarking your own

organization, as well as an assessment survey to

help you determine how your plant measures up

against the best.

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Filled with helpful data, advice, "lessons," and

firsthand stories from Best Plant leaders and

employees, America's Best will be essential

reading for managers in executive suites to theshop floor who are charged with the success of

their manufacturing organization.

"A clear and exciting depiction of the dramatic

changes taking place in manufacturing and theinnovative approaches used to sustain world-class

excellence." Jerry J. Jasinowski President,

National Association of Manufacturers

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"Highly readable and packed with relevantexamples of what makes the best, best." Carla

O'Dell, PhD President, American Productivity &

Quality Center

"A rousing standing ovation for Ted Kinni and theeditors of IndustryWeek. America's Best is a

benchmark book, and Kinni and colleagues have

pulled off an Olympian feat. . . . If you've set a

course for excellence, you must read this book." Jim Kouzes, coauthor The Leadership Challenge

and Credibility, Chairman and CEO The Tom

Peters Group/Learning Systems

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Advanced Filtration Systems, Inc.Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

Allen-Bradley Company

Baxter Healthcare Corp.Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co.

Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.

Coherent, Inc.

Continental General Tire, Inc.Copeland Corporation

Corning, Inc.

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Dana CorporationDigital Equipment Corp.

Edy's Grand Ice Cream

Engelhard CorporationExxon Chemical Co.

Fisher-Rosemount, Inc.

Ford Electronics & Refrigeration Corp.Ford Motor Co.

The Foxboro Company

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GE Fanuc Automation NA, Inc.General Electric

General Motors

General Motors Corp., CadillacGilbarco, Inc.

Hewlett-Packard Company

Honeywell, Inc.

IBM CorporationJohn Crane Belfab

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc.

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Kennametal, Inc.Lockheed Martin Corp.

Lord Corporation

Marlow Industries, Inc.MEMC Electronic Materials

Mettler-Toledo, Inc.

Milwaukee Electric Tool

Motorola, Inc.New United Motor Mfg., Inc.

Nippondenso Mfg., USA, Inc.

Northrop Grumman Corp.

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Pella CorporationRockwell International

Siemens Automotive

Sony Electronics, Inc.SPX Corporation

Steelcase, Inc.

Stone Construction Equipment, Inc.Super Sack Manufacturing

Symbiosis Corporation

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Tennessee Eastman CompanyTexas Instruments, Inc.

The Timken Company

TRW Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc.

Unisys Corporation

Varian Associates, Inc.

Wilson Sporting Goods Company

XEL Communications, Inc.Xerox Corporation

Zytec Corporation

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Industry Week's 21st annual salute to thebest plants in North America illustrates one

undeniable fact: Excellence in North

American manufacturing continues to thrive.

From Mexico to Canada and representing

five different U.S. states, the 10

manufacturing facilities that comprise the

2010 class ofIndustry Week's Best Plantswinners demonstrate the rewards that accrue

to manufacturers who strive for perfection

and never relax their efforts to improve.

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Their paths to operational excellence are varied. Newark,N.Y.'s IEC Electronics Corp., for example, recognized that it

needed to evolve to survive, scrapping an old business

model and embracing a new one developed in response to

changing market dynamics. As a result it is succeeding in

an industry that has moved largely overseas. BatesvilleCasket Co.'s Vicksburg, Miss., operations, on the other

hand, continues to pursue the processes that earned it a

2007 IW Best Plants award. It hasn't stopped there,

however. Optimizing is an often-heard word around the

plant these days as the facility focuses on getting more and

better yields from the lumber that comprises its primary raw

material.

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These are but two examples from 10IndustryWeek BestPlants winners that are succeeding in a manufacturing

environment that continues to challenge even the strong.

These facilities are increasing their competitiveness by

addressing challenges on all fronts and recognizing that

operational excellence is a team game. Smart leaderswilling to listen and learn; an engaged work force desiring to

help their workplace improve; and supplier and customer

participation -- all contribute to driving excellence within a

plant and beyond. Contributing as well is a focus on

employee training and the prudent introduction of

production and information technologies to help the work

force do their jobs more quickly, more safely and with

greater precision.

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The following pages contain the stories of IndustryWeek's 2010 Best Plants winners. Be

prepared to gain new insights and ideas to improve

your own manufacturing operations. Indeed, IW's

Best Plants winners from today and yesterday arenot strangers to gaining good ideas from other

manufacturers both within and outside of their own

industries. You can also read more about the 2010

winners online at www.industryweek.com. Theonline versions contain additional Web-exclusive

best practices.

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How They Made the Top 10IndustryWeek began accepting application

requests for the 2010 Best Plants awards late

last year. A panel ofIW editors reviewed the

completed applications, which reportedmanagement practices and plant performance

in such areas as quality, customer and supplier

relations, employee involvement, productivity,

cost containment, manufacturing flexibility and

responsiveness, inventory management,

environmental and safety performance, and

market results.

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BY T.H.KINNI

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