Turn Around in Production Plant
Task
- Bringing a deficient production facility for interior luminaires with significant process and quality problems into profitability
Industry/ Function / Expert
- Building fit-out / interior lighting
- Interim production manager
- Restructuring of production Dipl.-Ing. Nico Pohlmann
- 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