Industry & field services
Rediscover a collective industrial culture
Operational excellence
Ensuring the long-term future of an industrial site
Industry
Industry & field services
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Operational excellence
Context
Our client is a major global supplier to the aerospace industry, playing a critical role in aircraft assembly.
The challenge
One of the industrial sites is experiencing chronic delivery delays, putting its customer’s assembly lines at risk. It also needs to drastically reduce its production costs to ensure the site’s long-term viability.
The culture of measurement, knowledge of lean methods and clarification of the role of supervisors need to be rapidly reinforced.
The solution
A team of Spirit Advisors experts (analysts, engineers and logisticians) was mobilised to meet the 4 main customer’s needs :
- Optimisation of manual assembly lines
- Optimising bottlenecks in component manufacture
- Improvement and simplification of cross-functional processes (quality, planning, etc.)
- Involving external logistics players and changing the behaviour of production supervisors
The impact
The involvement of external logistics players and the introduction of new behaviours by production supervisors, in conjunction with HR and management, have helped to improve the site’s overall performance.
Production lead times have been stabilised and the recurring causes of delivery failures definitively addressed.
