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Case Study – Germany / France

Restructuring at a Builder of Luxury Yachts

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Restructuring and optimization of production

High losses, high staff turnover and a lack of efficiency lead to considerable financial losses. By introducing store floor management and a company-wide dashboard for KPIs, production increases of over 30% can be achieved.

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Company Details

  • The company (sales: €14m, earnings: €-5.4m) is part of a German group (sales: €122m)
  • Location in France, 200 employees, 4 lines
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Situation and Challenge

  • Highly loss-making, high staff turnover, low-skilled employees
  • Inefficient, no production planning, no process orientation, no work preparation
  • Lack of internal communication, low integration with parent company
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Objective and Tasks

  • Increase in output and production capacity 
  • Reduction of production hours per model
  • Integration into the group
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Measures and Approach

  • Introduction of the group-wide system, daily 15 minutes defect recording
  • Shopfloor management, processing of the defect list “LOP” (list of open points)
  • Installation of a display board with the KPIs quality, hours, absence
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Results and Achievements

  • Daily exchange between development and production
  • Internal material transport is carried out by internal logistics
  • Tracking of the KPI “hours per production cycle”
  • Increase of production output by more than 30%

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