A key industrial policy conclusion is that intelligently designed selective policies can be effective in developing production systems. Intelligent industrial policies need to be shaped to respond to contingent factors which are specific to a sector, period and country. Fundamentally, it is not a question of whether these selective policies work, but under what circumstances they work.
From this point of view, World Class Manufacturing is a “key” concept. This is the reason why the concept constituting “World Class Manufacturing” has received considerable attention in academic literature, even though it has been developed principally in relation to the needs of larger scale manufacturing organisations. Regards our case study we can conclude that WCM allows to reduce losses and optimize logistics flows. Thus, the main results can be summarized as follows:
- greater efficiency because the inner product is cheaper because it is possible to use external warehouses or suppliers - outsourcing - specialized and more cost-effective for the company;
- greater flexibility because it is possible to work more models (in Cassino with these logical sequencing and kitting there are 4 different model brands on the same assembly line: Alfa Romeo Giulietta, Chrysler, Lancia Delta and Fiat Bravo;
- no space constraint (in this example we get only 1 container already sequenced line side)
Definitely the new process and the internal flows are very lean and efficient. In this case study it was implemented a servo system using Low Cost Automation. This system ensures only one picking point in order to have only one container at the side of the production line.
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