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Two years ago the AFD discussion was closed as merge. Nothing wrong there as that was a correct reading of consensus. As far as I can tell nobody has made any attempt to merge the article until I came across it today. I noticed that in January 2015 (6 months after the merge close) he was awarded an MBE. [1] [2] I think this new information might now make him notable enough for a stand alone article. Note that Black Kite, the admin who correctly closed the AFD, has since retired. The respondents at the AFD were @ DGG, Ritchie333, Peminatweb, Gregkaye, Sig1068, Xymmax, Lankiveil, Whpq, and XiuBouLin: AIRcorn (talk) 09:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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1. I found, days ago, that I had lost access to the article itself and to all history and references to it, including the deletion deliberations, because (as noted by someone in authority when I raised the issue) an inadvertent colon had appeared right after the title of the article (e.g., "World-class manufacturing:"), which caused a block against access. 2. I failed to make a copy of the article and need it now to complete this request for deletion review. 3. I suspect that the final decision to delete was based on my initial, very rough and inadequate creation of the article (In my talk I thanked DGG for pointing out the flaws). However, on noticing the recommendation to delete, I searched and found and included extensive information mainly from books, plus a few published articles on the topic, World-class manufacturing. I had not dug into the hundreds of articles on the topic that have been published, thus to use them to further improve the article, but could not do so since the article was delisted. 4. If I had received timely advice about flaws in the article (e.g., dictionary, original research, synthesis faults) I could easily have made the necessary corrections. 5. I communicated with the administrator about these matters, and so, now, am taking the next step. Known and knowable ( talk) 00:44, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I may have contributed to DGG's referring to the title as a "general superlative," because in my original, brief, poorly-done entry of the article, I think I started off referring to it as a generic term that ...." But, as sometimes is the case with a good title, "world-class manufacturing" may have been coined initially (in a book and in a later article by the Harvard professors) partly BECAUSE it had a familiar ring to it. It's similar in that respect to Just-in-time manufacturing, Lean manufacturing, and other terms that have become prominent (vs. obscure terms such as 5S, to which the reader might wonder, "huh?) and are in Wikipedia. But thank you for your advice--that I need to list those additional sources. I would be pleased to do that, and have extra free time now that summer is here. I'm still a Wikipedia rookie, have learned a lot in this deletion matter, and expect to do much better in the future. Known and knowable ( talk) 20:55, 24 June 2016 (UTC) I am adding to this talk, because I've just done a partial literature search for World-class manufacturing, the most notable finding being that an article in French with that exact title already exists in Wikipedia. It includes bits of the same material that was in my deleted article. My search, still preliminary, also yielded 26 articles, many from refereed journals, with that term in their titles; and a list of 16 "world class manufacturing professionals" that turned up from LinkedIn (e.g., Onu Kiliç, World Class Manufacturing Supervisor at Türk Traktõr). All for now. Known and knowable ( talk) 23:51, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the temporary undelete. I'll respond first to the puffery angle and then to your three points. Yes, world class can and is applied to athletes, opera singers, and whatnot. But "world-class manufacturing" has been elevated into manufacturing similar to that of lean, Toyota production system, just-in-time--along with other terms that are not popular in other contexts (e.g., cellular manufacturing, Six Sigma, total productive maintenance, 5S, multi-skilling, statistical process control, reengineering). Hayes, Wheelwright, and Clark might have hoped that the title of their 1988 book, Dynamic Manufacturing (which I cited in my weak opening sentence to the article), would have caught on instead of World-class manufacturing. But The latter term, though it can be seen as puffery, caught on as a collection point for a wide range of manufacturing concepts and methods probably because it IS a common expression. As to your three points: (1) I fully agree that "being better that almost every other company ..." is a ridiculous statement. I included it partly because it was among the earliest writings on WCM and also that it was written by three Harvard profs who were (probably retired by now) about the most prominent academics in their field of operations management. But it was a poor way to open the article, and it should be eliminated and replaced by a better opening. (2) I'm sure Fiat/Chrysler wants the public to know about its "world-class manufacturing," in that it does have promotional value. But in my further research today I learned that they have some kind of a WCM institute that propagates their WCM concepts rather deeply into the organization, with people designated as WCM functionaries in Detroit HQ and in their plants in various countries. In my today's research I've found other companies that in the 2000s have similarly established a WCM presence in their organizations: CNH Industrial, Whirlpool China, Saint-Gobain Brazil, Maserati, Unilever Germany. In a re-write I would cite articles about these other WCM users, and downplay Fiat-Chrysler's. (3) The book is the Schonberger/1986 book that was the subject of the preceding para.; it should have been cited as such in the continuation under Factory methodologies. In this new paragraph, I'd like to show you some evidence that world-class manufacturing has/had become much more than the common puff term. I apologize for inundating you, but here are a lot of articles, mostly unearthed today, on various aspects of WCM; quite of few of them come from refereed academic journals (I would intend to cite these kinds of sources in order to greatly improve the article): Fast, Larry. 2016. What is world class manufacturing and how do you measure it? IndustryWeek. (Nov. 2-4); http://www.industryweek.com/measure-world-class-manufacturing (accessed 24 June 2016). Hopper, Trevor, Jazayeri, Mostafa, Westrup, Chris. 2008. World class manufacturing and accountability: how companies and the state aspire to competitiveness. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 4/2: 97-135. Storey, John; Harrison, Alan. 1999. Coping with world class manufacturing. Work Employment & Society, 13/4 (December): 643-644. Gharakhani, Davood. 2011. Identify and ranking obstacles of world class manufacturing implementing by the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. International Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 1/5: 10-18. Digalwar, A.K., Sangwan, K.S. 2007. Development and validation of performance measures for world class manufacturing practices in India. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 6/1 (June) COLIN, N. World-Class Manufacturing versus Strategic Trade-Offs. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 1992, vol. 12, issue 4, p. 55 - 68. W.J. Vrakking, P. Mulders. The implementation of ‘world class manufacturing’ principles in smaller industrial companies: A case study from consulting practice. Technovation, Volume 12, Issue 5, July 1992, Pages 297-308 Schonberger, R.J. 1986. The vital elements of world-class manufacturing. International Management, 41/5: 76-78. Silva, L.C.S., et al. 2013. Cost deployment tool for technological innovation of world class manufacturing. Scientific Research, JTTs, 3/1 (January); open access paper; www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=27019 predatory publisher (accessed 24 June 2016). Owens, Jeff. 2015. 10 steps to achieve world-class manufacturing maintenance practices. Plant Engineering (May 11). http://www.plantengineering.com/single-article/10-steps-to-achieve-world-class-manufacturing-maintenance-practices/16a02f4a380350e95d06083e2851aa6c.html (accessed 24 June 20160. Jaap van Ede, Ir. 2015. Unilever’s new and integrated program for world class manufacturing. Business Improvement EU (19 October); http://www.business-improvement.eu/worldclass/Unilever_World_Class_Manufacturing_Yamashima2.php (accessed 24 June 2016). Garberding, S. 2009. World Class Manufacturing: Chrysler Group LLC 2010-14 Business Plan; a PowerPoint presentation (Nov. 4). http://www.business-improvement.eu/worldclass/Unilever_World_Class_Manufacturing_Yamashima2.php (accessed 24 June 2016). Sayay, B.S., Saxena, K.B.C., Ashish, K. 2001. World-class manufacturing and information age competition. Industrial Management, 43/3 (May/June). Oliver, N., Delbridge, R., Jones, D. 2005. World class manufacturing: further evidence in the lean production debate. British Journal of Management, 5/s1 (December): S53-S63. McGroarty, J. Stanton. 2013. How world class manufacturing made one plant safer, greener and more profitable. Plant Services (March 20). http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2013/04-plant-profile-chrysler-belvidere/ (accessed 24 June 2016) De Felice, F., Petrillo, A., Monfreda, S. 2015. Improving operations performance with world class manufacturing technique: a case in automotive industry. Intech: Chapter 1. http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/43383.pdf (accessed 24 June 2016) (Note: This article summarized Schonberger’s 1986 book>) Linda C. Hendry. 1998. Applying world class manufacturing to make‐to‐order companies: problems and solutions", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 18 Iss: 11, pp.1086 - 1100 Jazayeri, Mostafa; Hopper, Trevor. 1999. Management accounting within world class manufacturing: a case study. Management Accounting Research, 10/3 (Sept.): 363-301 Lukman, S., Hafizah, A., Nurlisa Loke, A. 2014. The impact of world class manufacturing practices on company performance: a critical review. Applied Mechanics & Materials, Issue 564 (July): 727. Institute for world class manufacturing to award 120 certifications. 2010. Quality Magazine (June 24) Lind, Johnny. 2001. Control in world class manufacturing—a longitudinal case study. Management Accounting Research, 12/1 (March) 41-74. Andrea Chiarini & Emidia Vagnoni. 2014. World-class Manufacturing by Fiat: Comparison with Toyota Production System from a Strategic Management, Management Accounting, Operations Management and Performance Measurement Dimension. Int’l J. of Production Research, 53/2, 2015 If I am allowed to re-do the article, I would also take a close look at the World-Class Manufacturing article that I found in the French Wikipedia. Known and knowable ( talk) 04:12, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Based on my explanations and numerous additional sources on world-class manufacturing, can the article be restored so that I can get to work making it right? Thanks. Known and knowable ( talk) 02:49, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
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Two years ago the AFD discussion was closed as merge. Nothing wrong there as that was a correct reading of consensus. As far as I can tell nobody has made any attempt to merge the article until I came across it today. I noticed that in January 2015 (6 months after the merge close) he was awarded an MBE. [1] [2] I think this new information might now make him notable enough for a stand alone article. Note that Black Kite, the admin who correctly closed the AFD, has since retired. The respondents at the AFD were @ DGG, Ritchie333, Peminatweb, Gregkaye, Sig1068, Xymmax, Lankiveil, Whpq, and XiuBouLin: AIRcorn (talk) 09:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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1. I found, days ago, that I had lost access to the article itself and to all history and references to it, including the deletion deliberations, because (as noted by someone in authority when I raised the issue) an inadvertent colon had appeared right after the title of the article (e.g., "World-class manufacturing:"), which caused a block against access. 2. I failed to make a copy of the article and need it now to complete this request for deletion review. 3. I suspect that the final decision to delete was based on my initial, very rough and inadequate creation of the article (In my talk I thanked DGG for pointing out the flaws). However, on noticing the recommendation to delete, I searched and found and included extensive information mainly from books, plus a few published articles on the topic, World-class manufacturing. I had not dug into the hundreds of articles on the topic that have been published, thus to use them to further improve the article, but could not do so since the article was delisted. 4. If I had received timely advice about flaws in the article (e.g., dictionary, original research, synthesis faults) I could easily have made the necessary corrections. 5. I communicated with the administrator about these matters, and so, now, am taking the next step. Known and knowable ( talk) 00:44, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I may have contributed to DGG's referring to the title as a "general superlative," because in my original, brief, poorly-done entry of the article, I think I started off referring to it as a generic term that ...." But, as sometimes is the case with a good title, "world-class manufacturing" may have been coined initially (in a book and in a later article by the Harvard professors) partly BECAUSE it had a familiar ring to it. It's similar in that respect to Just-in-time manufacturing, Lean manufacturing, and other terms that have become prominent (vs. obscure terms such as 5S, to which the reader might wonder, "huh?) and are in Wikipedia. But thank you for your advice--that I need to list those additional sources. I would be pleased to do that, and have extra free time now that summer is here. I'm still a Wikipedia rookie, have learned a lot in this deletion matter, and expect to do much better in the future. Known and knowable ( talk) 20:55, 24 June 2016 (UTC) I am adding to this talk, because I've just done a partial literature search for World-class manufacturing, the most notable finding being that an article in French with that exact title already exists in Wikipedia. It includes bits of the same material that was in my deleted article. My search, still preliminary, also yielded 26 articles, many from refereed journals, with that term in their titles; and a list of 16 "world class manufacturing professionals" that turned up from LinkedIn (e.g., Onu Kiliç, World Class Manufacturing Supervisor at Türk Traktõr). All for now. Known and knowable ( talk) 23:51, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the temporary undelete. I'll respond first to the puffery angle and then to your three points. Yes, world class can and is applied to athletes, opera singers, and whatnot. But "world-class manufacturing" has been elevated into manufacturing similar to that of lean, Toyota production system, just-in-time--along with other terms that are not popular in other contexts (e.g., cellular manufacturing, Six Sigma, total productive maintenance, 5S, multi-skilling, statistical process control, reengineering). Hayes, Wheelwright, and Clark might have hoped that the title of their 1988 book, Dynamic Manufacturing (which I cited in my weak opening sentence to the article), would have caught on instead of World-class manufacturing. But The latter term, though it can be seen as puffery, caught on as a collection point for a wide range of manufacturing concepts and methods probably because it IS a common expression. As to your three points: (1) I fully agree that "being better that almost every other company ..." is a ridiculous statement. I included it partly because it was among the earliest writings on WCM and also that it was written by three Harvard profs who were (probably retired by now) about the most prominent academics in their field of operations management. But it was a poor way to open the article, and it should be eliminated and replaced by a better opening. (2) I'm sure Fiat/Chrysler wants the public to know about its "world-class manufacturing," in that it does have promotional value. But in my further research today I learned that they have some kind of a WCM institute that propagates their WCM concepts rather deeply into the organization, with people designated as WCM functionaries in Detroit HQ and in their plants in various countries. In my today's research I've found other companies that in the 2000s have similarly established a WCM presence in their organizations: CNH Industrial, Whirlpool China, Saint-Gobain Brazil, Maserati, Unilever Germany. In a re-write I would cite articles about these other WCM users, and downplay Fiat-Chrysler's. (3) The book is the Schonberger/1986 book that was the subject of the preceding para.; it should have been cited as such in the continuation under Factory methodologies. In this new paragraph, I'd like to show you some evidence that world-class manufacturing has/had become much more than the common puff term. I apologize for inundating you, but here are a lot of articles, mostly unearthed today, on various aspects of WCM; quite of few of them come from refereed academic journals (I would intend to cite these kinds of sources in order to greatly improve the article): Fast, Larry. 2016. What is world class manufacturing and how do you measure it? IndustryWeek. (Nov. 2-4); http://www.industryweek.com/measure-world-class-manufacturing (accessed 24 June 2016). Hopper, Trevor, Jazayeri, Mostafa, Westrup, Chris. 2008. World class manufacturing and accountability: how companies and the state aspire to competitiveness. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 4/2: 97-135. Storey, John; Harrison, Alan. 1999. Coping with world class manufacturing. Work Employment & Society, 13/4 (December): 643-644. Gharakhani, Davood. 2011. Identify and ranking obstacles of world class manufacturing implementing by the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. International Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 1/5: 10-18. Digalwar, A.K., Sangwan, K.S. 2007. Development and validation of performance measures for world class manufacturing practices in India. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 6/1 (June) COLIN, N. World-Class Manufacturing versus Strategic Trade-Offs. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 1992, vol. 12, issue 4, p. 55 - 68. W.J. Vrakking, P. Mulders. The implementation of ‘world class manufacturing’ principles in smaller industrial companies: A case study from consulting practice. Technovation, Volume 12, Issue 5, July 1992, Pages 297-308 Schonberger, R.J. 1986. The vital elements of world-class manufacturing. International Management, 41/5: 76-78. Silva, L.C.S., et al. 2013. Cost deployment tool for technological innovation of world class manufacturing. Scientific Research, JTTs, 3/1 (January); open access paper; www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=27019 predatory publisher (accessed 24 June 2016). Owens, Jeff. 2015. 10 steps to achieve world-class manufacturing maintenance practices. Plant Engineering (May 11). http://www.plantengineering.com/single-article/10-steps-to-achieve-world-class-manufacturing-maintenance-practices/16a02f4a380350e95d06083e2851aa6c.html (accessed 24 June 20160. Jaap van Ede, Ir. 2015. Unilever’s new and integrated program for world class manufacturing. Business Improvement EU (19 October); http://www.business-improvement.eu/worldclass/Unilever_World_Class_Manufacturing_Yamashima2.php (accessed 24 June 2016). Garberding, S. 2009. World Class Manufacturing: Chrysler Group LLC 2010-14 Business Plan; a PowerPoint presentation (Nov. 4). http://www.business-improvement.eu/worldclass/Unilever_World_Class_Manufacturing_Yamashima2.php (accessed 24 June 2016). Sayay, B.S., Saxena, K.B.C., Ashish, K. 2001. World-class manufacturing and information age competition. Industrial Management, 43/3 (May/June). Oliver, N., Delbridge, R., Jones, D. 2005. World class manufacturing: further evidence in the lean production debate. British Journal of Management, 5/s1 (December): S53-S63. McGroarty, J. Stanton. 2013. How world class manufacturing made one plant safer, greener and more profitable. Plant Services (March 20). http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2013/04-plant-profile-chrysler-belvidere/ (accessed 24 June 2016) De Felice, F., Petrillo, A., Monfreda, S. 2015. Improving operations performance with world class manufacturing technique: a case in automotive industry. Intech: Chapter 1. http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/43383.pdf (accessed 24 June 2016) (Note: This article summarized Schonberger’s 1986 book>) Linda C. Hendry. 1998. Applying world class manufacturing to make‐to‐order companies: problems and solutions", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 18 Iss: 11, pp.1086 - 1100 Jazayeri, Mostafa; Hopper, Trevor. 1999. Management accounting within world class manufacturing: a case study. Management Accounting Research, 10/3 (Sept.): 363-301 Lukman, S., Hafizah, A., Nurlisa Loke, A. 2014. The impact of world class manufacturing practices on company performance: a critical review. Applied Mechanics & Materials, Issue 564 (July): 727. Institute for world class manufacturing to award 120 certifications. 2010. Quality Magazine (June 24) Lind, Johnny. 2001. Control in world class manufacturing—a longitudinal case study. Management Accounting Research, 12/1 (March) 41-74. Andrea Chiarini & Emidia Vagnoni. 2014. World-class Manufacturing by Fiat: Comparison with Toyota Production System from a Strategic Management, Management Accounting, Operations Management and Performance Measurement Dimension. Int’l J. of Production Research, 53/2, 2015 If I am allowed to re-do the article, I would also take a close look at the World-Class Manufacturing article that I found in the French Wikipedia. Known and knowable ( talk) 04:12, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Based on my explanations and numerous additional sources on world-class manufacturing, can the article be restored so that I can get to work making it right? Thanks. Known and knowable ( talk) 02:49, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
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