REDESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR PANELS PRODUCTION LINE
When the annual demand on the switchgear panels increased and exceeded the factory capacity, there was a vital need to secure the factory production orders from being delayed, and to avoid penalty payments.
The management department had also remarked the continuous increase in WIP and inventory, which impacted the factory cash flow, and after studying the current situation, it was decided to redesign the production line with a complete re-engineering for the production and materials planning processes.
Tough targets were set by the management department and mainly represented in:
- Increasing the factory capacity by 50%
- 25% reduction in operations expenses
- Reduction 50% in WIP
- 25% reduction in the cycle time of manufacturing and assembling operations
- Faster delivery to customer, On Time Delivery not less than 90%
- Higher quality efficiency, monitored through the FPY and Sigma Score.
- Higher level of customer satisfaction, monitored through the Net Promoter Score NPS.
The project took three months in design phase, in where the design drawings for the production line with the modernized solutions had been approved and released for the construction phase which took almost the same period of time.
In addition to the training program which was set for the whole team in the factory, the project was successfully accomplished and achieved the required business targets.
