Lean Manufacturing in a High Containment Environment

A case study of how Pfizer’s Right First Time strategy helped overcome daunting capacity challenges at its new large-scale containment facility at Illertissen, Germany, while Six Sigma and Lean strategies enabled the site to achieve previously unknown levels of efficiency.

By Georg Bernhard at Pfizer Global Manufacturing (March 2010)

Keywords: lean manufacturing, high containment, newcon design, RFT, ICON, PGM,

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