Customer’s Demand

- Improving productivity on a furniture assembly-line

- Integrating different actors in this process

Key-Steps

- Training of actors on the process 

- Campaign of instant observations   

- Research of solutions on inactivity reasons with all actors   

- Setting-up of OEE calculation  

- Organization of storage and supply logic

- Stock output with supply list

- Study of exchange of die based on the most penalizing references   

- Timing and line balancing   

- Definition of standard documents on work stations

- Definition of standard times  

- Definition of the phases to be created in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)

- Adjustment and enforcement of production orders

- Validation of planning parameters and calculation of human resources

 Results

- OEE increase from 45% to 65%, ie a workforce gaining more than 3 000 h/year valued at 75K€ 

- Rationalization of working stations and storage areas adjustment

- Re-supplying of component stocks by pull flow

- Use of a unique supply list coming from ERP

- Changing of references in background time

- Line balancing on representative products with a saturation rate between 85% and 90% 

- Workstation documentation and simplified update 

- 55%-entry of operations in ERP in less than 3 months

 - Human-resources planning finally possible

Only 15 days of assistance spread on 10 months

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