1.   This year, five Delphi plants won the Shingo Prize, a manufacturing excellence honor administered by Utah State University.

2.   Wiedeking hired Japanese consultants to rip apart and refashion a company that was supposed to be the paradigm of German manufacturing excellence.

3.   The workshop assistants and manufacturing excellence of the house carry over for the transition.

4.   This has been achieved by market differentiation and manufacturing excellence.