Rowney Consulting Helping companies of all sizes become more competitive quickly

Case Study Number 1
Description:
This client is an operating division of a Fortune 100 company with over $800M in sales and 2500 employees across multiple sites. This division provides engineering, design and production of avionics systems.

Business Situations:
An increase in foreign competition was driving a need for reduced cost and improved delivery.

Services Provided:
Over the course of four years, we helped this client develop and implement a Lean Strategy that extended from raw materials to end customer. To accomplish this transformation we provided the following services:

Lean Enterprise
Production System Design and Start-up
Value Chain Management
Quality Systems
Policy Deployment
Strategic Planning
Change Leadership
Organizational Design

Methods Used;

Workshop
Model Value Stream
Project Management
Benchmarking
Assessments
Production Preparation Process

Results
The initial Model Value Stream provided knowledge and enthusiasm for completing the transformation by providing the following improvements in 110 days:

62% ä in flowtime
71% ä in work-in-process
53% ä in space
75% ä in holding costs
$1.2M cashflow contribution

Following the Model Value Stream, the same approach was rolled out across the rest of the organization resulting in $29M in savings. By extending the principles to the supply base, an additional $75M was saved.

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