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Lean Six Sigma Sample Projects for Manufacturing

If you need to improve productivity, accelerate organizational change, have better data management, BMGI has applied Lean Six Sigma and process improvement methodologies to a variety of processes for many manufacturing organizations.

Lean Six Sigma Sample Projects
  • Reduce Cycle Time for Testing a New Release
  • Decrease in Scrap & Rework Costs
  • Reduce Process Variation Costs Related to Manufacturing
  • Increase in Quality Pieces Per Person Per Hour
  • Supplier Selection and Development
  • Resource Minimization in the Supply Chain
  • Reduction of Obsolete Materials in the Supply Chain through Better Material Tracking
  • Reduction of Downtime and Unscheduled Line Changeovers Caused by Part Outages
  • Improve the Effectiveness of Employee Hazard Recognition
  • Bearing Life Cycle Design of Equipment
  • Tying Inputs to Outputs
  • Measurement of Coating Thickness at Inlet Duct
  • Reduce Demand Suspensions at the Dock
  • Reduce Cost of Quality due to Scrap
  • Reduce Cable Defects at System Test
  • Material Delinquent Reduction
  • Reduce Inbound Freight
  • Reduction of Days of Supply (DOS)
  • Responsiveness Score Improvement Project
  • Improve Core Welding Process
  • Catalyst Wrapping Project
  • Steelhead III Swing Weight Elimination
  • Indoor Test Range Variation Reduction
  • Improve Inventory Accuracy in End-user Branches
  • Reduction of Excess Non-Stock Inventory
  • Face Durability Testing Improvement
  • Reducing Customer Freight Credits
  • Reduce the Number of Wiring Defects
  • Plastic Scrap Reduction
  • Rework Scrap Reduction due to Engineering Errors
  • Reduction in Rough Edges in Laminate Panels
  • Milling Optimization
  • Reduction of Bow/Twist on Laminates
  • Optimization of Product Cost
  • Reduce Overproduction
  • Reduction of Cost of Waste Treatment
  • Order Creation Life-cycle
  • Reduce Packaging Waste
  • White Resin Waste Reduction
  • Improve Customer Satisfaction level of Equipment Maintenance Process
  • Reducing Press Room Tooling Failures
  • Toyota Endcap Productivity Improvement
  • Reduced Lost Material-Missing Parts
  • Molder Cycle-time Reduction
  • Nitrogen Reduction in Wave Soldering Process
  • Volkswagen A4 Warranty Cost Reduction
  • Reduction in Non-conforming parts
  • Reduction in Downtime due to Press Fires
  • Improve Foundry Resin Coasted Sand Throughput
  • Reduce the Color Variability
  • Reduce Particulate and Gel Rejections for Fiber Optic Coatings
  • Improving Steel Yields
  • Reduction in Number of Wiring Defects
  • Work Planning and Sequencing
  • Lack of Material Downtime Hours
  • Reduce Demand Suspensions at the Dock
  • Warehouse Shipping Accuracy
  • Shipping Optimization Project
  • Forming Machine Optimization
  • Calibration Process Variation
  • Optimization of Chromic-Acid Logistics
  • Reduction in Cosmetic Defects
  • Process Variation Reduction for Hydraulic Motor Rotor Boxes
Who BMGI has helped
  • J&J
  • TAMKO Roofing
  • Siemens Energy & Automotive
  • DuPont
  • Amgen
  • Medtronic
  • ABB
  • Dial
  • MeadWestvaco
  • Smith & Nephew
  • Manitowoc
  • Celestica
  • Galvacer
  • Powell
  • General Dynamics
  • Graphic Packaging
  • Moog
  • Seagate
  • Callaway Golf
  • STERIS

If you are just getting started thinking about Six Sigma or Lean in a manufacturing environment, BMGI encourages you to contact us to learn more.

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"BMGI was more practical and less theoretical than some, and they were willing to stay with the project for a longer period of time and not walk away. They invested in making this work and that’s one reason it’s been so successful."

David Myers
Vice President, Performance Excellence and Chief Procurement Officer
Avis Budget Group

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