When all others gave up, a $3,500,000.00 USD production line was boosted by 150% cycle time and 55% uptime optimization.
Three years later the producer was convincingly offering a totally new line at the same price, with a big technological improvement making it 50% more productive. Enthusiastically, he visited the client’s plant with the original line in use to prove how superior the new one is. But the stopwatch shocked him. All that time the boosted line was producing as much as the new and the original one combined.
The hardware expenses were $50.00 for the cycle time and $0.00 for the uptime.
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It could be simpler. A production line for plastic Christmas trees was boosted by 65%.
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It could be smaller. A clamp bending machine was boosted by 20%. Not much, but after 15 years, it means 3 years additional production…