Task

  • Bringing a deficient production facility for interior luminaires with significant process and quality problems into profitability

Industry/ Function

  • Building fit-out / interior lighting
  • Interim production manager
  • Restructuring of production

  • Transparency and improvement of the material flow in the factory implemented
  • Efficient use of the ERP system for deadline tracking
  • Change management measures implemented in the entire plant and neighbouring departments (sales, technology)
  • Lean management introduced in assembly
  • Re-organisation of sub-processes and the process organisation
  • Kanban system set up at certain workplaces
  • Consolidation of different storage locations into a central warehouse for the main components
  • Indicator systems with control loops were introduced

  • Improved material flow, shortened throughput times and lean management led to an increase in productivity of >40

Production plant for interior luminaires with approx. 100 employees within a group of companies
Dipl.-Ing. Nico Pohlmann

Partner

 +49 40 8000 845 92 pohlmann@fup-ag.com
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