We are a $400 million medical equipment business company and our plant that produces products for the USA market.   The production line was losing parts that dropped on the floor. Our conveyor belts develop static electricity that makes the parts tick and not...

Analysis of the production system resulted in the identification of output from the manufacturing area is too low. Further drill down analysis identified that short stops was a chronic problem. Short stops made up to a total of 18% lost production with 50% of the...

Our business was the manufacture of medical equipment. The output from the manufacturing area was not at expected levels and the product variation was high. More sales were not realized since the customers could purchase more products then we could manufacture. The...

This community owned non-profit system was having problems delivering support to the elderly people in their care. The elderly lived in their own homes and received a visit from a Nurse to provide medical, food, cleaning, etc. Typically a nurse was spending 2 hours...

This community owned non-profit system was having problems delivering support to the elderly people in their care. The elderly lived in their own homes and received a visit from a Nurse to provide medical, food, cleaning, etc. Typically a nurse was spending 2 hours...

We are a $60 million Food Production business company and our plant that produces meat packed for consumers.   The OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) analysis showed us that changeover of a line was limiting our ability to produce the number of variants we...

Food Production - Kaizen   We are a $25 billion food business company and our plant that produces dried product for industrial and food service applications.   Throughput on machine #3 has slowly reduced from 13,500 lbs. / hr. to 12,000 lbs. / hr. over a...

The Energy industry is getting more and more price competitive. Our competitors are under cutting prices to win the business. We have defined a key KPI in the market that enables us to keep prices on a somewhat higher level, if this KPI is at an outstanding level. The...

We are a $40 million hydraulic component business company and our plant that produces cylinders to mobile equipment.   We had done a flow analyzes and found that a CNC machine was limiting our ability to produce the number of variants we needed. The set-up time...

  We are a $90 million Automotive product business. We make components for cars. In one of our production cells we found that our OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) was just over 50% and we struggled to deliver. The OEE was varying a great deal and we found it...