The Carlisle Operating System (COS)
The Carlisle Operating System (COS) is our business strategy that drives enterprise-wide commitment to continuous improvement, operational
excellence, and sustainable growth. It guides how we work, solve problems, and improve.
COS is embedded across all business functions and customer touchpoints. It yields cost reductions, sparks innovation, and supports long-term value creation.
The Carlisle Operating System:
- Is founded on respect and engagement of our people, accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making.
- Creates the environment for innovation and learning.
- Develops organizational capability and capacity.
- Is based on lean and variation reduction principles and tools, project management, and development of
people.
- Is built on three pillars: people, process, and productivity:
People: Valued, engaged, learning, multi-skilled and agile, COS knowledgeable, problem solving,
value orientation, working as a team without functional boundaries. Focused on better every day.
Process: All work is accomplished through a process. Improvement is possible in every process.
Information and material flow with minimal lead-time and waste.
Productivity: Growth in sales exceeds growth in cost. The right level of resources (material,
people, equipment) in the right place at the right time.
OSHA Incident Rate
Path to Zero is the
core of our safety management system, which is modeled on international and Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards
Ongoing safety training, reporting of near misses to identify areas to improve, and a
safety-first culture help drive our safety results. We are proud of our safety record but, as in every
continuous improvement culture, we know there is always room for growth.