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Yamazumi (work balancing) highlights 12% throughput improvement
Results: A disc brake pad manufacturing business questioned its 'conventional wisdom' of assigning operators to semi-automatic presses. Working with press operators, CLS analysed press loading, cycling and unloading cycle times over a range of press cure times to identify the opportunity for a 12% increase in production throughput. During this…...
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Value Stream Mapping (VSM) identifies $170k in process waste
Results: In light of moving some of its production offshore, an SME rubber products manufacturer questioned the entire business process for one of its product lines. CLS generated Value Stream Maps (VSMs) for engineer-to-warehouse processes, challenging the status quo and management 'thought inertia' at all process steps to identify sixteen projects/studies,…...
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Quick Change Over (QCO) results in $145k cost avoidance
Results: A repetition engineering company determined that reducing change over time on its broad mix of manual and CNC machines was necessary in order to remain competitive. Complete Lean Solutions worked with a cross-functional team of operators and support staff to train, measure, apply and standardise Quick Change Over (QCO)…...
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