Pet Food Manufacturer
Mixes, blends, extrudes, dries and bags several flavors of dog food.
- Designed new bagging operations and equipment requirements to eliminate the need for $6 million of work-in-process silos and conveyors.
- Performed capacity and scheduling calculations using digital simulation and ExcelÒ software.
- Identified proper buffer storage queue sizes for 5 automated bagging and palletizing lines.
Projection TV Lens Manufacturer
Extrudes, polishes, assembles, tests and packages several million projection TV lens assemblies annually.
- Performed a complete material workflow study with a 60,000-sq. ft. warehouse layout design to minimize floor space requirements, material handling costs and inventory carrying costs.
- Reduced annual inventory carrying costs $140,000 and annual operating costs $90,000 by performing a comprehensive workflow study.
- Provided spreadsheet models for re-calculating reorder-point levels and inventory turns to minimize inventory-carrying costs of different product forecasts.
- Generated six (6) equipment cost justifications that supported recommendations.
Compressed Gas Equipment Manufacturer
Machines, assembles, tests and packages medical, welding, manifold and compressed gas fitting assemblies.
- Implemented leveled scheduling with new assembly cell layouts for continuous flow processing utilizing Kanban cards to improve production efficiency 15%.
- Reduced Work-In-Process (WIP) inventory 10% for several product lines.
- Installed bar coding for finished product inventory tracking.