Canadian Best Practices/Success Stories

Canadian Best Practices and Success Stories using Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and other High Performance Manufacturing

These success stories and best practices have been arranged by: 

• Industry
• Company
• Region

This site presents links to publically available examples of Canadian manufacturers and service companies that have lean manufacturing, six sigma and other high performance manufacturing technologies to improve their competitiveness and productivity. All of the examples featured on this site provide specific measurements of their successes such as: 

• increased productivity by __ %
• reduced inventory by __ %
• reduced distance that parts travel by __ % or actual distance
• reduced fork lift truck travel by __ miles in one year.
• set up time reduced by __ % or from __hours to __ minutes
• lead time reduced from __ weeks to __ days
• and many more types of results...

These success stories and examples of best practices are readily available from Canadian web sites and leading Canadian industrial trade journals. Many of these Canadian companies have shown a willingness to share their methods of achieving these positive results by showcasing their successes in plant tours arranged by various organizations that also promote lean manufacturing, six sigma, continuous improvement, supply chain management, ...

Industry Canada welcomes other Canadian companies that would like to see their success stories appear in this portion of the "Canadian Resource Guide to High Performance Manufacturing". Please get in touch in touch with us or just let us know the location of your web site that describes your success. Please contact us through e-mail or directly at:

Manufacturing Industries Branch, Industry Canada
6^th Floor, 235 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H5
Tel.: 613-948-5056
Fax: 613-952-8988