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The following case studies show the results of the best of Dr. Anderson’s client engagement in each of the following categories with some links to how to get those results:
BEST RESULTS AFTER SEMINAR: Lockheed
Martin called in Dr. Anderson to present his unique seminar,
Concurrent Engineering and Build-to-Order for
Low-Volume/High-Mix Environments, which teaches effective ways to
greatly lower cost and improve responsiveness.
Results. Seven months later, Reuters reported that: “Lockheed Martin
Corp. has won an $8 billion U.S. defense contract for global logistics support
services for special operations forces,”
BEST RESULTS AFTER WORKSHOP: After a DFM
seminar, GE Transportation had Dr. Anderson facilitate a workshop for
GE's new diesel engine development to satisfy the strict new Tier-4 low-pollution
standards.
• Results: when this successful engine hit the market, GE got 1,000
locomotive orders and its main competitor, EMD (founded by General Motors), couldn’t compete any more.
• Key lesson cited: Dr. Anderson’s recommendation to
create a
microclimate to implement DFM principles in a project room with frequent
team interactions was was cited by GE management in the following quote that
appeared in a Union Pacific article saying: "We set up mission-based teams
with key leaders from different initiatives and literally pushed them together
in the same room day after day."
BEST COST REDUCTIONS.
An industrial processing equipment manufacturer reached their 40% cost reduction
goal after the first seminar and workshop on Design for Manufacturability &
Concurrent Engineering.
Based on that this first success, the company brought Dr. Anderson in to provide
DFM seminars and workshop for four more divisions, three of which were acquisitions
whose product development process was expected to follow his DFM&C
methodologies.
To learn how to reduce cost by 50% or more, see
article on cost reduction or visit
http://www.halfcostproducts.com/
BEST BUSINESS MODEL SHIFTS
• Design of Industrial Equipment. This success, in the above company, also changed their business model from after-market sales to new product development, based on the DFM principles persented herein.
• LG Electronics. On four trips to Korea in the late 1990's, Dr. Anderson’s management consulting and executive education recommended that they shift away from (a) their commodity-level products, like their Goldstar brand (the “G” in “Lucky Goldstar”) and (b) low-profit contract manufacture job. He recommended that they rationalization their products to focus on the most profitable ones and take advantage of their vertically integrated capabilities to build leading-edge products. Today LG sells premium LG brand of plat panel displays and other leading-edge products. Of all clients, LG has learned and applied the most from what Dr. Anderson taught them about prioritization from his instruction on Product Line Rationalization or see all the graphs in Appendix A in all DFM book editions.Build-to-Order of Industrial Equipment. The above case study was a business model shift for Hoffman Engineering (division of Pentair), which started with two of their executives attending Dr. Anderson's public seminar on Build-to-Order & Mass Customization, bringing in-house his customized BTO & Mass Customization seminar and then Dr. Anderson took Hoffman executives to see another company featured in his Mass Customization edition (the Rossflex operation of Ross Controls).
BEST IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING AFTER SEMINAR. An innovative Aerospace/Defense company arranged a two-day DFM seminar, which had twice the sign-ups as the class could handle. The day after the seminar, the company summarized the attendees’ answers to the question: “What applies most from the seminar?” on an implementation spreadsheet with columns for: the principle summary, driving factors, corrective actions, impacts from inadequate action, and implementation leader.
For DFM seminar agenda, see: http://www.design4manufacturability.com/DFM_seminars.htm
MOST REPEAT ENGAGEMENTS. The results of initial client engagements were so successful that the following companies arranged Dr. Anderson for repeat engagements: eight at Hewlett-Packard,six at Emergency-One Firetrucks, five at GE, four at Korea’s LG Electronics (see above), four at Boeing, four at BAE Systems, four at Smiths Aerospace (now GE Aircraft), three at Ball Aerospace, three at FMC, two at NCR, two at Emerson Electric, two at Freightliner, two at John Deere, and two at United Technologies Corporation.
Dr. Anderson’s clients are listed by category and then by number of engagements
at
http://www.design4manufacturability.com/clients.htm
GREATEST SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS TOPICS AT ONE LOCATION
Emergency One (a firetruck manufacturer) brought Dr. Anderson back for the
following training and workshops:
• two-day seminar on Mass Customization
• one-day implementation workshop on Mass Customization
• two-day seminar on Design for Manufacturability and
Concurrent Engineering
• one-day standardization workshop
• two fixturing workshops, one for cabs and one for bodies.
LONGEST CONSULTING ENGAGEMENT. The
robot division of PRI/Automation brought in Dr. Anderson for six years to do
consulting ranging from improving existing products to generating concepts
studies for a third-generation robot, when there was no second! This engagement
included a two-day DFM seminar showing many company examples.
GREATEST INVESTMENT BASED ON DR. ANDERSON’S PRINCIPLES: The
Hoffman
Engineering brand of Pentair brought Dr. Anderson in as they were planning a
leading-edge plant to build-to-order a wide range of mass-customized and
standard electrical enclosures on-demand without needing forecasts or inventory.
Then Hoffman build a $ 30.000.000 greenfield plant based on his principles,
which are summarized at
http://www.build-to-order-consulting.com/
After the plant was built, the
operation was so impressive that he personally arranged to lead two public plant
tours for the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) after his one-day
BTO seminar on “Spontaneous Build-to-Order” seeL
http://www.build-to-order-consulting.com/S-BTO-MC.htm .
This plant was featured in a Fortune magazine article: “Where Build-to-Order
Works Best,” in Fortune 500 issue dated April 26, 1999..
As guest editor for a special mass customization issue of the Agility Forum’s
journal, Agility & Global Competition (Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1998), he arranged
for Hoffman managers to write the article, “Mass Customization Comes to
Hoffman.” Faxes or scans of this articles are available on request. A summary of
the Agility Forum article is on-line at
http://www.build-to-order-consulting.com/hoffman.htm
FOUR CONSEQUENCES FROM NOT PURSUING THESE
METHODOLOGIES
These companies not only missed the most
advanced methodologies
but also received no challenges to any of their
counter-productive behaviors.
• two Concentrated Solar Power companies (CSP) went bankrupt after contacting Dr. Anderson but not pursuing any training or consulting.
• A Silicon Valley start-up went bankrupt after holding a seminar but cutting it short and cancelling the DFM session of a DFM course because they thought it was “preaching to the choir.”
Companies are at risk if they keep designing just for
function in the typical scenario presented the first section
in the Concurrent Engineering article
and keep getting the consequences, in the section section.
The rest of the article shows how to eliminate these problems and risks using
Concurrent Engineering
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