Task definition
- Picking steel products
- Plant manager
- Productivity improvement
Industry / Function / Environment
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Reduction of lead times
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Outsourcing of production units
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Improvement of material flow
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Establishment of project management
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Change management
- Location Main transshipment base for DACH region and Benelux
- Interrupted supply chains as a result of short-term staff reductions
- Closure of a production area and its relocation
- Targeted increase in personnel
- Merging of incoming and outgoing goods processes
- Visual identification of the material flow
- Revision of the shop floor layout for new production line
- Introduction of daily store floor meetings
- Introduction of OEE key figures
- Creation of small project teams for planning, diagnosis and control of tasks
- Reduction of lead times by 15%
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Presentation of the OEE in different production areas
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Hiring and training of a new store floor manager
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Effective communication between store floor and management
- Austrian steel group
- Manufacturer of high-alloy steels and PM materials
- 50,000 employees, €11 billion sales