Project |
Project Duration |
Area of Utilisation |
Typical Benefits |
Industrial audit
|
1-2 weeks/ |
Fast analysis of the state, improvement potential and solution proposals |
Immediate savings from proposals, clear defining of change areas and steps |
Analysis and measuring of work |
4-6 weeks/ |
Performance norms, productivity and ergonomics of workplace |
Norm reduction by 10-40%, improvement of workplace layout, training of specialists |
Product innovations |
8-20 weeks/ |
Product development, marketing, innovation projects |
Training of people in new style of work, creating map of solutions, product with radically improved qualities |
Process management |
12-24 weeks/ 20-30 MD |
Engineering, production, enterprise processes |
Cost reduction, higher flexibility and responsiveness, clear responsibility for processes, higher performance |
Segmentation, new Layout |
8-16 weeks/ |
Production, logistics, material flows, layout |
Surface reduction by 10-50%, shortening of material flows by 20-50%, reduction of WIP and throughput times by 10-20% |
Value Stream Mapping |
4-6 weeks/ |
Production lines, manufacturing processes-material and information , throughput time |
Reduction of throughput times by 30-50%, wasting elimination, WIP reduction by 10-40%, cost reduction, process simplification |
Teamwork |
24-40 weeks/ 16-24 MD |
Production, management, engineering |
Preparation and team start-up, improvement of performance and motivation, reduction of overtime and costs |
Setup time reduction |
2-4 weeks/ |
Manufacturing equipment and lines |
Setup time reduction by 30-60%, standardisation, batch reduction |
Inventory reduction, balanced flows |
8-16 weeks/ |
Production, logistics, material flow, layout |
Inventory reduction in the firm by 10-30%, new system of inventory management, freeing surfaces |
TOC – Management of Constraints |
4-6 weeks/ |
Production, engineering, constraints in the enterprise |
Analysis of causes of bottleneck rise and fast increase of their throughput by 5-10% without investment costs |
Lean Sigma |
54 weeks/ |
Whole Enterprise |
New system of control and measuring of strategic projects concerning improvement of firm’s performance, annual benefits of 15-30 million Slovak crowns |
TPM |
12-24 weeks/ 15-30 MD |
Manufacturing equipment and lines, maintenance |
Machine productivity increase by 10-20%, better care of equipment |
5S, workplace organisation |
4-16 weeks/ |
Production, logistics, information system, offices |
Reduction of redundant things at the workplace, increased productivity, saving surfaces |
Pull, Kanban, DBR |
12-16 weeks/ |
Production, logistics |
Making control clearer, WIP reduction and throughput time reduction by 10-50% |
Organisation of Engineering |
12-24 weeks/ 10-15 MD |
Engineering |
Time reduction in engineering by 10-30%, failure reduction in engineering by 5-10%, improvement of communication |
Visualisation |
8-16 weeks/ |
Whole Enterprise |
Improvement of communication, inspection, motivation and control, support of teamwork |
Cost reduction per product |
24-50 weeks/ 15-20 MD |
Selected product or a group of products |
Cost reduction by 5-20% |
Process improvement |
8-16 weeks/ |
Production, logistics, material flows, layout |
Inventory reduction in enterprise by 10-30%, new inventory management, freeing surfaces |
New product start-up |
8-24 weeks/ |
Engineering, start-up, try-out |
Reduction of start-up time by 10-30%, cost reduction for chnages by 10-20% |
Strategic Development Management |
20-30 weeks/ 10-15 MD |
Whole Enterprise |
Preparation and realisation of strategy for the annual growth 5-20% |
Modelling and simulation |
12-24 weeks/ 15-30 MD |
Manufacturing systems, logistics |
Fixed cost reduction by 5-10%, investment reduction by 3-8%, improvement of functionality and risk elimination – optimisation out of the shop floor |