Manufacturing Process and Material Flow – Aerospace and Mass Transit

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