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Device Manufacturer-NV
Improve Operational Efficiency in the Electronic Filter Assembly
The Challenge:
- Improve plant
productivity and profitability
- Multilingual workforce
- Medical and industrial
businesses at the same site.
The Approach:
- Implement Flow
- Design and implement
assembly cells
The Solution:
- Trained the entire
workforce in Lean Manufacturing.
- Conducted eight
Kaizen Events; from implementing assembly cells to implementing
new facility layouts to improve product flow.
- Set new metrics
in place
- Instituted shift
start-up meetings and visual controls
The Results:
- Reduced time to
ship by 45%.
- Designed and installed
five assembly cells improving productivity by 39%
- Eliminated all
Saturday Overtime, which had been in place for the previous
two years.
- Reduced defectives
by 15%.
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