In today’s demanding, global marketplace, operational excellence is not an option. It is a mandatory part of success. The proprietary DuPont approach is structured to achieve systematic improvements in capital effectiveness and asset productivity. These methodologies continuously prove themselves across 210 DuPont facilities that produce products for over 25,000 customers.
What is Operational Excellence?
Operational Excellence is an integrated management system developed by DuPont that drives business productivity by applying proven practices and procedures in three “foundation blocks”:
- Operations Risk Management, which involves Process Safety Management, Electrical, Environmental, Distribution, Occupational Health, and Fire Explosion issues;
- Capital Effectiveness which involves Facilities Engineering, Project Process Methodology, Project Team Leader Training, Business Planning, Facility Planning, Project Implementation, Start up and Initial Operations, Value-Improving Practices, Contractor effectiveness, Shutdown/Turnaround Practices; and
- Asset Productivity which involves Business Level Analysis, Assessment, Consensus/Implementation Planning, Implementation, Sustaining/Control Plan, Maintenance and Reliability Systems, Manufacturing Capacity, Energy Optimization, Facilities Infrastructure, Mechanical Integrity, Produce Quality and Process Control.
Why DuPont Operational Excellence?
DuPont operates thousands of different processes, in hundreds of manufacturing locations, in seventy countries around the world. Our scientists and engineers have perhaps the broadest experience base of any consulting firm in the world in increasing the efficiency of manufacturing processes. The integration of safety, innovation, and facility owner operation is unique. So when we began selling, licensing, and joint-venturing product/process technology, customers and clients increasingly recognized our competence in asset productivity, capital effectiveness, and operations risk management and expressed a desire for access to these elements of our expertise, as well.
The end result is an integrated management system that provides your business with a significantly enhanced competitive position in an increasingly competitive world.
