INDIA MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2014

Tentative Site Assessment Schedule

Day 1
Session 1 (Pre-Noon)
Meeting with the Plant Head
Introduction and Presentation
Company Overview
Plant Tour (Walk Through)
Session 2 (Post-Noon)
Marketing & Sales Forecasting
Periphery & Security
Incoming & Plant Stores (Receiving and Incoming Quality)
Day 2
Session 1 (Pre-Noon)
Production (All Production Departments/Sections)
Session 2 (Post-Noon)
Production Planning and Materials Planning
Quality (Incoming/In-process/Finished Goods/ Audit
Processes/Integration of Poka Yokes with Quality and
other efforts to make Quality systems more robust)
Maintenance (Electrical, Mechanical, including Utilities)
Day 3
Session 1 (Pre-Noon)
New Product Development / R&D
Procurement (Including visit to 2 vendors to be chosen at
random by team)
Human Resources (Practices in alignment with corporate
goals)
Safety & Environment
Worker's Presentation (Team based improvement projects
if any)
Session 2 (Post-Noon)
Compilation of observations
Closing meeting with the Facility Head
NOTE: The schedule mentioned above is generic and purely tentative. It will vary, depending on the
nature of complexities associated with different sites.

2014 Frost & Sullivan

IMEA 2014