Anthony Kelly

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Pisa Saint-Gobain – Inventory Reduction To Release Cash to Fund Growth

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The Pisa plant is one of Saint-Gobain Glass’s oldest glass manufacturing facilities. With a very broad product range the business carried large inventory of products of different colours, thicknesses, coatings and sizes (>1200 SKUs). The nature of the glass manufacturing process necessitates long campaign lengths to achieve stability. With manufacturing lead times greatly in excess of customer lead times the supply chain strategy was to stock against forecast. This required two large warehouses on site for plus satellite warehouses across Italy .
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The challenge was to find a way of dramatically reducing the inventory to provide space for the installation of a new coater and allow the sale of surplus land to pay for it. An across the board percentage inventory reduction was unlikely to succeed – previous stock reduction efforts had resulted in temporary reductions followed by unexpected stock outs and then a gradual drift back to high stocking levels.

  • Analysis of demand patterns and demand variability (by SKU family)
  • Data analysis to focus in on critical product families and value streams
  • Value Stream Mapping (VSM) project selection Kaizen event with team to identify high impact improvement projects
  • Implementation of new production planning rules and buffer stock levels based on runners/repeaters/specials
  • Warehouse layout redesigned
  • Loading operations simplified
  • Reduction in inventory levels by more than 20% without any adverse customer impact
  • Reduction in storage area by more than 30%
  • Validated savings of €600,000
  • Broad engagement of workforce in Lean Kaizen improvement processes

A longer version of this case study appeared  in UK Excellence Magazine

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Standard Life – Support of Process Excellence Programme in Financial Services

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Standard Life plc is a savings and investment business, with headquarters in Edinburgh and global operations. It has 1.5 million shareholders in more than 50 countries and over 6 million customers. In response to commercial, regulatory and risk pressures in 2008 Standard Life started implementing a process management framework to support the necessary business transformation
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To establish process management structure and process excellence programme in
order to:

  • Define and implement the right process architecture and business operating
    model
  • Build and embed lean continuous improvement skills and culture
  • Deliver improved efficiency and effectiveness through lean six sigma

Standard Life wanted to run an in-house programme to build skills and
capability within the organisation.
Process Insight helped them in a number of ways:

  • designing the training programme
  • certifying their BBs and MBBs
  • setting up internal GB certification aligned with British Quality Foundation accreditation standards
  • coaching and mentoring to MBB level

Standard Life have run a very successful process excellence programme which won the ‘Best Start-up Programme’ at the European IQPC awards 2010.
They supported it by building their in-house process excellence skills and capability and now have strength and depth with well over 100 GBs, 30 BBs and 5 MBBs.
Process Insight have provided the in-house team with expert guidance and mentoring to build their skills allow the programme to flourish.

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Shortlisted for Chemical Industry Service Provider of the year

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We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Chemical Industry Service Provider of the year.

The purpose of this Award is to recognise the contribution Service Providers make to the success of the UK chemical industry. The award will recognise innovation and outstanding delivery of services for example, engineering, IT, legal, training to the chemical or pharmaceutical sectors.

The winner will be announced at the Chemical Industry Awards Dinner on 15 June in Leeds.

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TMD Friction – Commercial Effectiveness, Pricing Process Re-design

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TMD Friction is the world’s number one manufacturer of brake friction materials in the original equipment market of the automotive and brake industry, producing one million brake friction products daily. Highly experienced in application of Lean Sigma in manufacturing TMD wanted to expand process improvement activities into their commercial operations.
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TMD were under severe price pressure from their OEM customers. They had a ‘cost – plus’ pricing approach and consequently were not getting full value for many of their high performance products. The goal was to design and implement a value based pricing process for the commercial team which could be rolled out through their global activities leading to an increase in average selling prices.
  • Design and implementation of market and customer segmentation process
  • Implementation of value based pricing model and tools
  • Design and implementation and roll out of new operational Pricing Management process
  • Training of global commercial teams
  • Increase in average selling prices in both automotive and lorry markets
  • Engagement of commercial teams in process improvement activities
As TMD themselves say on their website “Lean management does not just play a significant role in production – it equally affects all divisions of the organisation – the sales structure in the replacement division as much as the purchasing department, etc.”
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Hertel – Targeting the Business Critical Issues

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Hertel is a leading international, multi-disciplinary, industrial services company. It supports its customers with access solutions, insulation, corrosion protection, mechanical, offshore and specialist services. Their customers are in the Oil and Gas, Process, Energy and Offshore industries. Hertel had started a relatively small scale conventional Lean Six Sigma programme. Although they had delivered some projects they were not seen as business critical.
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The company had a Black Belt and some Green Belts in the UK but their projects had been confined to finance where there was some sponsorship. However, unless the Lean Six Sigma team started delivering real benefits in ‘main stream activities’, where sponsorship was weak, the future of the programme was in doubt. The goal was to identify some high impact projects that would demonstrate the relevance to the business.
Using the Process Insight Strategy to Action Process, we worked with the leadership to:
  • identify the major gaps / threats to delivering their strategy
  • identify the ‘Big Ys’ – the 3 – 5 critical few ‘initiatives’ needed to close that gap over the next 1 – 2 years.
  • select one of these on which to focus the Lean Six Sigma resource.
The selected Big Y was to turn around a ‘problem’ contract which was coming up for renewal in 1 year. It was with a strategic customer and covered access services on a high hazard chemical complex. A business director then sponsored a 2 day VSM project selection workshop with a cross section of site personnel. A good shared understanding of the current state was gained. The ‘pain points’ that drove inefficiency were identified and a prioritised list of scoped out projects was generated.
The client was delighted to now have a credible improvement plan. It incorporated quick hits, Just do it, Green Belt and Black Belt projects. The plan was owned by the leadership and had sufficient buy in at all levels for successful implementation.
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FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnology – Driving Strategic Transformation with Lean Sigma

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FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnology have used Lean Sigma as the basis for driving strategic transformation. Learn more about the innovative approach they have used to take process excellence from ‘backroom to boardroom’ and adapt and tailor the Lean Sigma methods to suit different aspects of the business.

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Rapidly growing in a dynamic and emerging market, the business is founded on high quality R and D and flexible and responsive manufacturing.
The main focus of the FujiFilm transformation has been to shift the organization’s ‘mindset’ to that of a service business. This has required a shift from traditional large corporate manufacturing thinking into a highly innovative, agile, customer-centric approach.
Key strategic challenges essential to drive growth and increase profitability have been addressed.

  • Providing unique and tailored services for customers
  • driving increased productivity in all business activities
  • reducing lead times and increasing flexibility
  • ‘Size of the Prize’ analysis was carried out to identify priority focus areas for improvement
  • A new deployment vision and roadmap was developed strengthening the programme alignment with the business strategic objectives and required outcomes
  • Leadership involvement and engagement with the programme was deepened
  • Critically the programme scope was extended out beyond manufacturing to cover other strategically vital business activities e.g. R and D, QC, Engineering support, Sales and Operations Planning
  • To date over 40 Green Belts and 330 Yellow belts have been trained, and have completed improvement projects and Kaizen events
  • 5S and visual management has been rolled out across all key manufacturing and laboratory areas (including R and D)
  • Lean Daily Management processes have been introduced
  • Improvement activities have been undertaken tackling wide range of issues including reducing process cycle times, increasing QC productivity, increasing Right First Time, reducing losses and reducing equipment downtime
  • A new manufacturing structure and shift pattern implemented on time and on budget
  • Annualised hard benefit of >£1.8 million
  • Significant increase in productivity with 20% reduction in headcount
  • Record number of new product introductions into manufacturing with 60% reduction in new product introduction cycle time
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Saint Gobain – Global Manufacturing Excellence Programme

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Saint Gobain Glass is a leading global manufacturer of float glass and coated glass products. In an increasingly competitive market they were faced with the urgent need to drive significant improvement in manufacturing and supply chain efficiencies and reduce costs. A key platform for delivering this was the implementation of a global manufacturing excellence programme.
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Saint Gobain Glass needed support to design and implement a programme to drive productivity improvement and share best practices between 37 float lines and 17 coating plants around the World. Lean Sigma was selected as the improvement method.
The objectives of the global programme were to:

  • Design and implement a programme to build a sustainable continuous
    improvement capability
  • Develop a framework for sharing best practices
  • Support launch and delivery of improvement projects in each plant to drive
    productivity and quality improvement and reduce costs
  • Design of Manufacturing Excellence Vision, Roadmap, and supporting
    implementation plan
  • Development of best practice assessment and auditing tools and methods
  • Training over 400 Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts from 20
    countries
  • Coaching and mentoring of global deployment team to guide successful rollout
    to each plant
  • Project coaching support to ensure successful project and benefits delivery

Business impact over a 3 year period:

  • World Glass Manufacturing Excellence Programme successfully established in
    30 Plants
  • >150 Improvement projects completed
  • Benefits per annum exceeded 15million euros pa
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Novo Nordisk – Design and Launch of An Opex Improvement Programme

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Global insulin manufacturer looking for 30% reduction in cost and 25 % increase in output. Executive team convinced that solution was better capacity utilisation and not further capital investment.
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  • Identify improvement opportunities
  • Design Opex Roadmap
  • Develop internal Opex and CI skills
  • High level value stream mapping (VSM) of supply chain processes – drove focus
    onto aseptic production, assembly, and packaging
  • Detailed VSM which identified over 100 improvement opportunities
  • Benefit/effort matrix used to focus on 5 critical issues
  • Opex Roadmap developed setting 2 year improvement agenda and Governance
  • Training Programme and Improvement projects Launched
  • Coaching of project leads to ensure benefits delivery and skills transferred
  • Significant production volume increase with no capital
  • Batch record right first time from 48% – 72% -reduced delays
  • OEE increase in bottleneck process(assembly) from 65% -72%
  • Simplified production planning and Kanban replenishment
  • Visual management and ‘lean daily management system’ introduced – rapid response
    to issues
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OEE Improvements In Secondary Packing

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The secondary packing area was a site constraint and suffering from low OEE due to a number of factors.
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OEE was low (<50%) due to long and inconsistent changeovers, poor planning, poor material flows, poor resource availability and poor layout. The goal was to improve the OEE by applying appropriate tools in all problem areas.
  • Rhythm planning was introduced to the packing area supported by simple modelling. The plan was fixed for the next 24hrs and was indicative after that
  • SMED techniques were used to improve standard changeovers
  • Material flows were improved components, products and change parts
  • Initial training was provided to packing operators and technicians and then they were involved in the improvement process
  • Closer management during packing orders was employed
Packing area OEE improved from 50 to 60%, quality improved, safety improved, work atmosphere improved, planning became calmer, the site got 20% more business due to improved reputation.
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Astra Zeneca – Product Release Lead Time Reductions

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Final product release lead time was too long due to  quality and processing issues with documentation.

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The batch documentation for a complex sterile product was very complex. The 
 ‘right first time’ (RFT) from documentation for final batch release was <10% and 
release lead-time after the final processing step was too long (4 days).
The goal was to dramatically improve RFT and to reduce the lead-time.

  • Documentation was simplified (remove unnecessary activity)
  • A Documentation Room (D Room) was created to allow documents to ‘flow’ through the process with errors being quickly corrected
  • Structure was added to documentation activities
  • Visual Management techniques were employed
  • Documents processed in sequence rather than ‘by preference’
  • Documentation RFT improved to >90%
  • Lead Time dramatically reduced (4 days to <1 day)
  • Documentation seen as core part of them process rather than a necessary evil
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ColorMatrix – Driving Effective Innovation and New Product Development

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ColorMatrix is a leading global manufacturer of liquid color and additives for plastics. Rapidly growing the company success depends on the rapid design and launch of new products developments (NPD).
A highly innovative and customer focused culture had resulted in the launch of a large number of product development programmes.
Consequently technical resources were spread very thin, priorities were unclear, and NPD projects were not being delivered effectively.

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ColorMatrix required:

  • Clearer development priorities driven from business and market needs
  • A more structured NPD process to ensure product development projects carried out efficiently and effectively without stifling the creativity and innovation that is central to company’s success

Design and implementation of market planning process to give strategic market direction to innovation and NPD.

  • Leadership workshop to select top 6 strategic NPD programmes
  • Designed Stage – Gate NPD process
  • Designed Tools, Templates, and Governance Process
  • Trained Leadership, NPD and Market Teams in Process
  • Trained R and D teams in DOE as a key product design and optimisation tool
  • Much clearer focus on ‘vital few’ development priorities
  • More rapid NPD and increased return on NPD investment
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Sanofi / Rexam – Medical Device Quality Improvement

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Data Analytics with JMP used to successfully tackle ‘rare event’ and complex quality problems with medical devices.

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Medical devices were produced in large batches on very high volume manufacturing lines. Batches were sampled using a destructive test. Occasionally very low levels of defects (ppm level) were detected. Complete batches of suspect product had to be scrapped. The goal was to better understand the problem and to improve yield and OTIF.
  • Rigorous statistical analysis of historic test data (over half a million tests!) to identify possible factors e.g. production lines, products, components and test machines.
  • Design of Experiments to identify root causes.
  • Changes to product design, manufacturing conditions, test machine calibration, sampling strategy.
Scrapped batches and major supply chain disruptions were reduced by a factor of 3. Major cost savings and customer confidence was greatly increased.
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