Our client is a multinational company in Automotive components, with a new business line for EV batteries cooling systems, taking a relevant market share.
Key Challenges
- Product line for EV market had a bottleneck in the press
- Long history of tentative improvement did not succeed due to lack of scientific
Approach
- The key to success was the ability to correlate product and process
- Process was not in basic conditions and “habits” were considered as rules, leading to useless phases and high cycle time
- Failure modes were not understood in depth and were partially
- Product design can allow higher productivity once it
- Hands-on approach and dialogue between R&D, Quality, Maintenance and Production led to knowledge generation through proper design of experiments
Results
- 30% product line productivity increase through cycle time reduction
- 60% potential increase subject to customer approval of new product design (small changes) already tested
We can postpone investments for 2 years coping with the demand in the meanwhile
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