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High Performance Manufacturing (HPM)

Canadian Best Practices/Success Stories

These success stories and best practices using lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and other high performance manufacturing have been arranged:


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

These success stories and examples of best practices are readily available from Canadian websites 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 on this website. Please get in touch with us or just let us know the location of your website that describes your success. Please contact us through email or directly at:

Policy and Sector Services Branch, Industry Canada
7th Floor, 235 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H5
Telephone: 613-948-5056
Fax: 613-952-8088