| ORGANIZATIONAL
INFORMATION |
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| Company |
Ford Motor Company
|
Division |
Electronics Division |
| Location |
- United States. |
| Company
Contact |
Marc Lorrain, Mgr. Continuous Flow Manufacturing |
| Source
of Reference |
IIR Conference on Theory Of Constraints Management in the Throughput World, January 23-24, 1992
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| Sales
|
$3,000,000,000 |
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| IMPLEMENTATION
INFORMATION |
| Name |
Ford Motor - Electronics Div. |
| Location |
United States |
| Industry
Segment |
Automotive |
| Revenue |
$3,000,000,000 |
| Number
of employees |
15,000 |
|
Implementation Date |
1991 |
| Products |
Radios, Engine Control Modules, Instrument Clusters, Driver Information and Power Train Modules |
| Systems
in use |
Legacy |
| WHAT
WAS DONE? |
|
| TOC
Applications |
DBR |
|
| RESULTS
OF IMPLEMENTATION |
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| IMPLEMENTATION
RESULTS |
|
| Inventory
Decrease |
Reduced 100 million dollars (50%) |
On-time
performance
|
| From |
89% |
| To |
98% |
| Percent
improvement 10%% |
|
| Lead
times |
| From |
6.4 days with JIT |
| To |
2.6 days |
| Percent
improvement |
|
| Cost
efficiency |
Reduced floor space by 57% |
| Brief
summary |
Used
TOC to improve on major gains made with JIT between 1988 and 1991,
reducing lead times by an additional 60-80% and improving on-time to
98%; eliminated need for two expensive plants saving approximately 100
million dollars; reduced quality defects by 50%; improved investment
effciency by 20% and on-time delivery by 38%
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