Waste Reduction

Waste Reduction

Implementation Engineers implements Lean waste reduction across all areas of the organization, from business process cycle time reduction to elimination of the seven wastes on the shop floor manufacturing line. We help our clients learn how to identify and address waste through joint execution on our programs. We determine which areas of waste have the greatest return on effort, whether the waste is related to people, quantity, quality or other areas. Our team is dedicated to rapidly identifying and reducing waste in the business, and teaching those we work with at our client sites to do the same.

50% lead time reduction

41 days improvement in on-time delivery

36% reduction in WIP

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IX® in Action

A major Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) foundry researches and manufactures advanced microelectronic technologies. Due to anticipated and significant growth in one of its product lines, the company needed to transition from an R&D focused, low-volume/ high-mix laboratory to a pure high-volume/ high-mix production facility. Our client partnered with IE to identify the key drivers of excess waste, high lead time and high work in process (WIP) and to implement an improvement program. IE implemented the following:

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