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Metal Processing

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Production Manager

Project Length

  •  12 Months

 

Objective

  •  Maintain delivery to clients after company was brought out of administration

 

Issues to start with

  • Shop floor layout

  • Raw Material Identification & storage

  • Inventory Control

  • Production Planning

  • Labour Efficiency

 

Plan to fix it

  • Improve the shop floor layout to improve material flow & reduce waste.

  • Allocate fixed Locations for Material Storage.

  • Improve inventory control by implementing a Lot Tractability System on raw material.

  • Introduce Visual Management System for Production Planning

  • Implement a 3-shift system to reduce costs and improve key machine efficiencies.

 

Issues on the way

  • Negative Cashflow

  • Invoice Factoring Restrictions

 

Result

  •  Managed to full fill all customer requirements and pay employee wages before Administrators were called in for a 2nd time.

Preventative Maintenance Programme

Project Length

  •  12 Months

 

Objective

  •  Reduce machine Downtime. Reduce H+S Issues near misses

 

Issues to start with

  • No preventative maintenance program in place

  • Repeated breakdowns on same equipment

  • No budget for TPM

  • High occurrence of near misses due to oil leaks

 

 Plan to fix it

  • Carry out assessments on all Hydraulic Systems

  • Create action plan based on report

  • Introduce a TPM budget

  • Introduce a Preventative Maintenance Plan

  • Sub contract Quarterly and annual inspections and maintenance

 

Issues on the way

  • Reluctance to Change

  • Aged Work force

  • Long term illness in department

 

Result

  • Machine downtime reduced to less than 1%

  • Housekeeping dramatically improved

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Material Flow Improvments

Project Length

  • 12 months

 

Objective

  •  Improve Material Flow from Goods Inwards to Customer

 

Issues to start with

  • No workshop organisation

  • Poor Raw and Finished Goods storage

  • Poor Delivery Performance

  • One off Special Deliveries

  • New pallets being procured for each shipment

  • No structure to return of pallets

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Plan to fix it

  • Introduce 5S

  • Re laid out Materials Stores to improve space utilisation

  • Purchase a side loading FLT

  • Set up Standard pallets sizes & shop stocks at suppliers to be called off

  • Set up Shop Stocks of finished goods for Key Customers

  • Implement Fixed Slot Variable Batch (Tete Tete) production on Key Machines.

  • Implement and run Kanban system on slitting, Polishing & Blanking Lines

  • Implement JIT supply/collection system for Pallets from customers.

  • Organise backloads to collect pallets from Customers

  • Introduce Milk runs

 

Issues on the way

  • Explaining and implementing demand Pull with Suppliers & Customers

  • Setting up fixed slot variable batch Production.

  • Working with Transport company to improve vehicle Utilisation

 

Result

  1. Improved productivity and enhanced DOTIF from 66% to 97%.

  2. Reduced transport costs by 2%,

  3. Reduced packaging costs by 88%

  4. Eliminated aged stock

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