By their clothes you will know them.
Production is up.
Inventories and waste are down. Surprisingly, the benefits have come without a massive investment of capital. APS is an amalgam of what Alcoa sees as the best thinking on how to run a production plant. It's also an extension of Chairman Paul H. O'Neill's penchant for benchmarking, studying world leaders and adapting their secrets to Alcoa. At first glance, the bible seems as though it's written in the original Hebrew.