Automotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company Struggles With Speed To Market

OEi’s successes represent meaningful, measurable, sustainable results that have enabled our clients to achieve their goals and objectives. The examples below have been selected to represent the widest cross-section of needs and applications.

challenge

Struggling to meet customer demands and expectations for new and revised designs, the company realized that its Engineering Change & Release Control function (ECRC) was a significant bottle-neck for its engineering center and many global manufacturing locations.

solution

OEi consultants evaluated the current processes and roles, and studied best practices along with benchmark cycle-times, then redesigned and implemented a new ECRC function and systems, which included:

  • Restructured and centralized the ECRC administration department.
  • Led the design, development, migration, and launch of electronic / online approval ECRC system, including network, hardware, and software development.
  • Included online drawing overlay markup capability with full CAD system integration. (Commercial products were not sufficient at the time.)

results

Company’s Automotive Products Are First Off the Line!

Below are shown some of the key benefits the organization experienced as a result of this work:

  • Decreased product development-to-manufacturing cycle time by 73%.
  • Reduced administrative headcount by 22% (from 18 to 14 FTEs).
  • This project won the corporate Chairman’s Award for Innovation.
When OEi Can Help You
  • When the demands on your organization’s leaders are increasing due to growth of your business or changing circumstances.
  • When the skills of your company’s management personnel need to be upgraded.
  • When you’re experiencing an increase in complaints or grievances about management practices.
  • When your performance management processes aren’t yielding the results desired.
  • When your small or mid-size organization has grown to the point where formal processes for managing employee performance are needed.
  • When organizational problems persist even after personnel changes and other “fixes” have been implemented.
  • When you’re having difficulty attracting, optimizing or retaining high-caliber talent.
  • When a sense of entitlement or a lack of urgency or accountability has taken root within your organization.
  • When a merger or acquisition is expected or has occurred.
  • When productivity or morale has declined.
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