How to Manage Pillars in a Cohesive Continuous Improvement System

When integrating different pillars within your factory’s operational excellence programme, it’s vital to ensure there’s just one unified management system. If you’ve got multiple pillars - whether it's TPM pillars, work streams, or departments - each with their own focus, how do you prevent them from creating separate, conflicting management systems? Safety, quality, maintenance, and other departments all bring their own methods and continuous improvement frameworks. The challenge lies in ensuring that these are aligned into a single, cohesive system for the factory's overall strategy and management. This is where the idea of one infinite loop of improvement comes into play, a system where control, vision, and improvement work together seamlessly across all pillars.
Each pillar contributes to specific areas of expertise, like maintenance focusing on reliability, or quality ensuring defect reduction. However, these pillars must feed into a unified management approach. This means aligning their vision, control systems, and improvement processes so that they all contribute to one continuous improvement system rather than building separate ones. The infinite loop concept ensures that while improvements are made, they are sustained and regularly reviewed. Ultimately, the goal is for all pillars to function together, improving their individual areas while upholding one strategy that benefits the entire operation.
In this video, I’ll break down how to integrate these pillars into one unified management system, ensuring that each contributes effectively to your factory’s overall goals without creating chaos. We’ll explore how to align different functions like quality, maintenance, and operations into one coherent system that drives sustainable performance improvements.
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• How to Manage Pillars ...
00:01 The infinite loop: vision, control, and improvement
03:30 Aligning pillars with factory strategy
06:00 Pillars in practice: Maintenance, quality, and AM examples
10:15 How pillars contribute to unified management
13:28 Conclusion and final thoughts