Operational Excellence

• ✔ Combine Top-Down with Bottom Up: what is needed - how do we get it
• ✔ Excellence Starts with Transparency and Start-To-See Tailored Digitalization Strategy as Facilitator
• ✔ Tailored Tools and Team Coaching
• ✔ Design of Efficiency Concepts with the Team
• ✔ Guide the Team to Their Path of Success

CEC provides the implementation of operational excellence systems on the shop floor. The typical methodology combines a top-down and bottom-up approach with individually tailored KPIs assuring a high level of transparency, cross divisional teams and coaching and respective management tools for steady improvement progress. A set of operational excellence tools e g Kaizen, lean-six-sigma, FMEA, 4M, 5S, 7Q, PDCA, SPC, TPM etc. is applied in a tailored manner to best match the local situation, - this with a particular HR sensibility, team building and coaching as the key for improvement sustainability.

Top-Down

• Detailed analysis of operational key figures and related financials
• Organizational structures at local and corporate level
• Position actual operational performance as base-line
• Identify required improvements and efficiency lift-ups and methodology to be applied
• Apply first target settings

Bottom-Up

• In-depth review on shop floor of process flows, supply chains, applied controls and methodology.
• Assure essential transparency of all required KPIs, “start-to-see”, identify and zoom-into deficit areas and reasoning.
• Team building in respective areas and/or along complete line with operators, supervisors, engineers and service functions with specific focus on hot-spots.
• Elaborate and design corrective measures with the teams, target setting, methodology coaching and provide management tools.

Result

• Full transparency of essential operational KPI on a daily, weekly and monthly basis including target settings, deviations and corrective measures, follow-up
• Crystal clear responsibilities and communication matrix per process department, cross-divisional interfaces, pro-active mindset to simplify, standardize, act preventively
• Production planning system with sharp focus on deviation control of actual versus planned labor utilization and operational equipment efficiency (OEE), smart process flow with balanced work-in -progress (WIP) at the process departments. The “start-to-see” approach paired with PDCAs resulted in significantly increased labor efficiency (LE) and strongly reduced work-in-progress (WIP) levels and with this lower operational cost, working capital and improved on-time-delivery (OTD)
• Yield improvement through intense process controls, consistencies and ownership as well as interface management between processes and service departments

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A Structured Approach to Meet all Business Needs

• Operational Excellence: A Management System that never stops to achieve steady Improvements
• Digitalization: Mandatory to move towards Top Performance along with Operational Excellence
• Essential Operational KPIs: Move towards full Transparency and “Start-To-See”
• Quality- & Process Consistency: Reliable yields and stability
• Planning Methodology: Key for Balanced Product Flow, WIP- and Labor Performance
• Lean Layout & Processes: Product Flow, Reduced Lead- & Cycle Times