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Throughput & Productivity One Week Kaizen ResultsProduction & Productivity
Rebalancing of line and completion of Kaizen activities will drive increase in output/productivity
Output increase of 22% from 245 to 300 at 85% of standard work
Productivity increase of 35% with 12% overtime factor
Incremental Revenue of $45,000+ per week based on additional output.
Capital Savings
Team confirmed that Cell will not need incremental capital for 400/week.
Follow through on Kaizen action items will allow cell to achieve target
Capital avoidance of $100,000+
Will need to add capital in “select” areas for 600/wk or duplicate entire cell and use additional capacity for other business

Transactional Process Improvement (Productivity) One Week Kaizen Results Reduction of 540 man hours for review of order package
Reduction of 50% in order entry man hours
Reduced risk to HPP in the order review process
Reduced lead time of 5 days in the order entry process
Enabler of the RFQ process to design common output Savings of $155,000 (increase NOP)

Transactional Process Improvement Savings Per Year$12.1K Soft – Elimination of Termination Calls
$23.5K Hard – Elimination of Overtime
<$12.9K> Soft – Resolve Termination Report Daily
$3.4K Hard/$.3K Soft – Eliminate Bad Invoices
$30K Soft – Call Center Using Payoff Matrix
$96K Hard – Reduction in P.tax and Insurance Losses
$2.7K Hard – Reduction in Fed Ex
$5.6K Soft – Time Savings in PIF Documentation Process
Total = $163K in Savings ($126.1 Hard + $35K Soft)Based on $33.00 cost per hour (national average cost for customer service)

High Volume Production Productivity Kaizen Results Visual Management
Developed Set of Performance Measures to drive QDC improvement in production cells
Production & Productivity
Resolved machine/setup problems to drive output increase by an average of 33% in the run rate of each machine in the cell
Productivity increased by 57% from baseline
Machine Stopping/Lost Time reduced from 19% to 5%
Setup 3 Machine Cell which reduced operator walking by 35%
Annual Savings estimated at ~ $90,000+ (Multiply by 5 if all cells are implemented and results are similar)

CLIENT ALPHA NLP Kaizen Results
Facility Date Tool Kaizens Identified Potential Annual Saving $ Implemented Notes
Div 1
Mar-05 FLOW, 3P     $230,000  
Div 1
Mar-05
SW     $435,000  
Div 2
Apr-05
3P   $8,000,000
$3,500,000
Cost Avoidance building- Pulled back CAR
Div 2 May-05 SW
  $9,000,000
  Got Team Back on Budget, Could not meet budget, Cut 9 months
Div 3 Feb-05 VSM
14
$5,500,000
   
Div 3 Mar-05
TPI,SW     $300,000 Stake -234 hrs. to 78 hours
            Patch - 234 hrs. to 16 hrs.
          $1,100,000 Mate-Demate - 44 days to 22 days
Div 4
Apr-05
3P, SW     $736,000
Days Pulled Out of Schedule
Div 4
May-05
TPI
    $300,000 $300,000 $25000/month
Totals
      $22,500,000 $6,601,000  
Most are cost avoidance since each program was over budget before kaizen.
CLIENT BETA NLP Kaizen Results
Event
Company
Kaizen
Tool
Labor Savings
Inventory Savings
Lead Time
Kaizens ID
Pumps
Div 1
9/21/2004
VSM
28 days to 5 days
15
Quotes/Order Entry
Div 1
10/18/2004
TPI
28 days to 1.3 days
Casting Cleaning
Div 1
11/8/2004
SW
$25,000
50% Red. In Cycle T.
Setup Reduction
Div 1
12/6/2004
SMED
50% reduction
12VW Nozzle
Div 2
8/10/2004
VSM
$150,000
5
Materials
Div 2
8/10/2004
VSM  
30 to 5 days
6
Order Entry
Div 2
8/10/2004
VSM  
101 to 40 min/order
4
Shipping
Div 2
8/10/2004
VSM  
6.8 days to 1.5 days
5
5 Wire probe
Div 3
10/11/2004
VSM
10.9 to 4 (ex. Raw)
Probe Assembly
Div 3
11/1/2004
MPS
Inv. Add
Cell Pull
Div 3
11/29/2004
MPS
30% Improvement in output
Vane
Div 3
12/13/2004
VSM
86 days to 17 days
5
Pull
Div 3
1/10/2005
MPS
$55,000
KC Cells
Div 3
2/7/2005
SW
$177,000
$35,000
Order Entry
Div 4
6/28/2004
TPI
improve process
7
Nautilus Cell
Div 4
7/26/2004
SW
+35% Prodt’y
> $100K CAPEX Avoid
Small/Large Bore
Div 4
7/25/2004
VSM
94 days to 6 days
36
Kanban
Div 4
8/16/2004
MPS
$370,000
Cell 6
Div 4
9/13/2004
SW
$50,000
Tube Preparation
Div 4
10/11/2004
SW
$50,000
Altec Lg. Bore Leak
Div 4
11/15/2004
VR
Versalift
Div 4
2/22/2005
VSM
175 to 20 days
Total      
$452,000
$405,000
 
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CLIENT GAMMA NLP Kaizen Results
Location
Tool
Labor
Iinventory
KZ ID
Date
Other Benefits
Other Benefits
Div 1
VSM/MPS
$2,500,000
$2,500,000
1-Nov
Div 2
VSM/MPS
$2,356,000
7
8-Nov
(100k of TT Graf)
Div 2
MPS
$260,000
$4,312,000
10
6-Dec
Div 3
SMED
20-Sep
75%
96 min to 25 min
Div 3
SW
$750,000
$360,000
11-Oct
Div 3
SW
1-Nov
Flow Creation
Div 3
SW
6-Dec
5% OTD
75% on Pull
Div 4
VSM/VRK
15
6-Sep
Div 4
3P
4-Oct
Concepts 2 new Prod. Lines
Div 4
SW
$75,000
4-Oct
Div 4
TPM
4-Oct
KPI, 3% uptime
overtime
Div 4
MPS
$97,000
$2,000,000
4-Oct
Div 4
VRK
11-Oct
assem to order
Div 4
SW/5S
15-Nov
Flow Creation
Div 5
VSM
6
13-Sep
Div 5
SW
$700,000
27-Sep
Div 5
MPS
$20,000
$600,000
18-Oct
OTD
Div 5
VSM
3
29-nov
Div 5
VRK
13-Dec
6 Sigma Project
Total
$4,402,000
$12,128,00
41
Sept - Dec
Introduced to 9 tools

 

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