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Better manufacturing in China: An interview with two of PLP's top executives

  • With so many manufacturers now operating in China, the low-cost labor advantage that domestic and global companies enjoy there has dwindled.
  • As a result, the race is on among manufacturers in China to find other ways to reduce their operating costs or to improve the quality and delivery times of their products.
  • To this end, manufacturers in China are trying to adopt production best practices, such as lean manufacturing, that have proved critical elsewhere.
  • But as this interview with two executives of Cleveland-based Preformed Line Products (PLP) makes clear, companies in China must address unique challenges to adopt lean techniques.
This article contains the following exhibits:
  • Biography of PLP's Bill Haag and Wu Yu
  • Exhibit: The lean transformation has greatly improved the process.

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