Turning strategy Into execution: The lean evolution of electric avenue

OVERVIEW

The GE HealthCare Electric Avenue Plant tour provides participants with a firsthand look at a facility built on specialized, highly complex manufacturing technologies and vertical integration.

The site has transformed through disciplined lean application, technology adoption and strong leadership engagement. The tour highlights how the plant integrates its management system to drive daily accountability, visual performance management and a culture of continuous improvement.

Participants will experience real-time digital dashboards, MES-enabled workflow control and automated data capture that support consistent, high-quality execution. The Electric Avenue facility’s lean journey reflects a shift from reactive problem-solving to a structured, prevention-focused operating model. Early challenges — including variation in process stability, material flow interruptions and inconsistent standards — led to the adoption of tools such as 5S, standardized work, error proofing, tiered daily management and A3 problem-solving. Participants will see how the plant sustains improvements through layered audits, KPI transparency and closed-loop corrective actions.

Tour highlights include:
• Management system discipline that aligns teams from operators to executive leadership
• Advanced technology integration supporting flow, traceability and waste reduction
• Operations improvement systems that strengthen quality, delivery and cost performance•
EHS excellence, featuring engineered controls, visual risk management and proactive safety behaviors

By the end of the tour, participants will gain practical insights into how the Electric Avenue facility blends lean principles with innovation and leadership to achieve measurable operational outcomes.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

GE HealthCare is a leading global health care solutions provider of advanced medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics and AI, cloud and software solutions that help clinicians tackle the world’s most complex diseases. Serving patients and providers for 130 years, GE HealthCare delivers innovations designed for the next era of medicine across its imaging, advanced visualization solutions, patient care solutions and pharmaceutical diagnostics segments to support more personalized and precise patient care.

GE HealthCare is a $20.6 billion business with approximately 54,000 colleagues working to create a world where health care has no limits.

‍www.gehealthcare.com

Requirements & Restrictions

Requirements:

‍Steel-toed shoes (tour site to provide)

Safety glasses (tour site to provide)

‍Restrictions:

‍No recording devices

No mobile phones

No competitors

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