PROJECT
Manufacturing Process and Material Flow
CUSTOMER
Aerospace and Mass Transit Component Manufacturer
OVERVIEW
Our Process Optimization Team was engaged as a partner and extension to the customer team to identify and improve efficiencies through facility consolidations, manufacturing process and material flow improvements.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Redesigned production layouts to optimize space utilization.
Perform dock analysis to determine optimal receiving dock locations.
Instrumental in centralization of production and consolidation of three facilities.
Incorporated sub-assembly cells for insourced work.
Optimized production using lean principles to increase throughput.
BOTTOM-LINE RESULTS:
41% efficiency gain in material flow
43% improvement in production
16% increase in assembly throughput