
WCM (World Class Manufacturing) is a different set of concepts, principles,
policies and techniques for managing and operating a manufacturing company. It
is driven by the results achieved by the Japanese manufacturing resurgence
following World War II, and adapts many of the ideas used by the Japanese in
automotive, electronics and steel companies to gain a competitive edge .
Litum WCM system is a unique software that combines 12 modules under
an integrated platform that is developed with an oblective of incresing a
manufacturing company's overall efficiency. It
primarily focuses on continual improvement in quality, cost, lead time,
flexibility and customer service. Litum WCM Platform involves unmatched
features of manufacturing data collection and analysis, total
preventative maintenance, internal communication, suggestion
collection- follow up, action management, etc. Based on pillar management principles, Litum's World Class Manufacturing management platforminvolves tools
for cost, waste, quality, autonomous maintenance, safety, environment,
health, human resources, and suggestion system management. Started with Tetra Pak, Litum WCM Platform is internationally used by Schneider Electric and Indesit Company. 
| Modules of Litum WCM Platform are:
- Tag Follow-up: is an autonomous maintenance module to collect all improvement ideas,
machine problems, etc. from employees and manage their implementation
processes including approval and assginment.
- Analysis: is a module to organize activities of root cause/ preventative action
with the help of methodologies such as fish bone diagrams or 4M
analysis.
- Meeting Management: is a module which
organizes activities to create meetings for any purpose and for any
type (daily meetings, steering meetings, team meetings, etc), invite
unlimited number of attendees to a meeting, assign an owner, reporter
and a meeting room for each meeting, define and publish agenda for each
meeting, save the meeting notes and create an action for each note,
bind the actions with the meeting and see a summary for all the actions
created by this meeting.
- Training Management: Based
on an employee skill matrix, classifies, organizes and reports all
training activities required to achieve the objectives.
- Shift Reporting: is
a module to facilitate effective communication between employees from
different shifts. After each shift, any kind of production issues, long
machine stops, accidents, etc. can be entered and logged in the system.
These logs support text based search.
- Overtime and Leave Management Manages and processes overtime and leave requests
- Team Management is amodule to create teams for pillars with different types and different
methodologies. It has ability to add unlimited employees to a team,
select the team leader, assistant leader, team mentor, define the
objective of a team in detail, track the audit forms and control lists
of a team. Files (image, video, documents, spreadsheets, etc) can be
added to team's records.
- Action Management: is the heart of the WCM Platform. From each module, it gathers information and follows up the assignments of each employee.
- Awarding: It
collects data from all the modules above. For each employee, it
calculates an award point depending on their performance in team
activities, closing actions on time, suggestions (tags) that create a
difference, etc.
Although it is an integrated platform, all modules of WCM system can be used as seperate software.
Litum WCM Platform stands on eight main pillars: - Focused Improvement (Kobetsu Kaizen)
- Autonomous Maintenance
- Planned Maintenance
- Quality Maintenance
- Early Management
- Training
- Office & Administrative
- SHE: Safety, Health, Environment
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