Productivity Increase

Project Duration

3 months

CURRENT CONDITION

· Investment in an automated production facility with the aim of increasing

  production capacity

· The output quantity is far below the requirements in quality and capacity

· Technical issues are causing frequent production interruptions

· Lack of coordination of the surrounding organization



IMPROVEMENT STEPS

· Definition of targets with customer input

· Analysis of current situation

· Introduction of measures to stabilize the processes and increase system availability

· Standardization of processes and definition of responsibilities

· Introduction of stop protocols and shift handover protocols

· Introduction of system-specific cleaning and maintenance processes

· Holding a workshop with visualization of the defects using defect cards

· Implementation of a set-up workshop to optimize set-up times through consistent separation of

  internal and external set-up processes

· Evaluation of production figures to visualize the production

· Regular auditing by Lignum Consulting after project completion