Pinion Process Improvement at Primetals Technologies
ÖffentlichThe objective of this Major Qualifying Project (MQP) was to reduce Primetals’ cycle time and setup time for pinions at workstation WWC1 by 20%. WWC1 was identified by Primetals as the bottleneck in their value stream for pinion manufacturing, with a processing time over twice as long as every other step in the process. The team applied lean manufacturing techniques to reduce waste at WWC1. Additionally, the team designed and manufactured a custom gage, a crucial tool for the WWC1 workstation. These combined solutions resulted in a 16% decrease in total cycle time per pinion at the workstation. The reduction in setup time derived from the team’s solutions was over 37% per pinion. This total reduction in cycle time aided in relieving the bottleneck at WWC1 resulting in Primetals being capable producing 120 more pinons per year. Assuming there is a demand for those 120 additional pinions, this could increase potential pinion sales revenue by as much as $1,200,000 per year without increasing labor and machine availability
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- Identifier
- E-project-022817-110529
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- Year
- 2017
- Sponsor
- Date created
- 2017-02-28
- Resource type
- Major
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- Zuletzt geändert
- 2020-12-29
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