Strategos Case Studies
Compilation of all Case Studies on Our Website
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The Great Nuclear Fizzle at Babcock & Wilcox Heavy Fabrication Everything went wrong when the venerab`le boilermaker entered the nuclear pressure vessel business. The aftermath brought delivery delays, strikes, lawsuits, red ink and a bizarre suicide. This classic case study is an excellent way to introduce Manufacturing Strategy to your management team or classroom. It comes with notes on the most effective way to conduct the discussion. |
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Competition In Substation Transformers Electrical Equipment This study illustrates how one manufacturer moved from a "Do everything for everybody" mentality to a more focused approach to competition, in this instance, Delivery and Quality. |
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Aircraft Machining How misapplication of the Blitz and designing workcells with slogans and edicts led this aircraft manufacturer into deep trouble. |
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Injection Molding/Assembly Shows the effects of too much reliance on the Kaizen Blitz approach combined with too little attention to Manufacturing Strategy. |
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The Hidden Hazards in One Piece Flow Investment Casting A precision foundry focuses inappropriately on One Piece Flow when designing workcells. The results are lower productivity. |
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A Successful Lean Manufacturing Implementation Mechanical Control Cables How perseverance and thoughtful planning leads this manufacturer to success in Cellular and Lean Manufacturing. |
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Light Assembly Illustrates the 10 steps for designing a kanban systems for production control. |
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Industrial Heaters The blitz approach is successfully applied to combined assembly/fabrication workcells that build industrial heaters. |
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Heavy Machining The difficult situation of short-run machine shops is attacked successfully by this manufacturer of specialized water pumps. |
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Ford Motor Company History How Henry Ford survived the recession of 1920-1921, bought out some unpleasant partners and divorced himself from Wall Street bankers. The company emerged with great financial strength and almost doubled efficiency. |
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Toyota Survives Strategic Bombing and The Aftermath of War Toyota History While the catastrophe of American bombing in 1945 affected all of Japanese industry, Toyota's biggest crises came about five years later. This financial and labor crisis was the inspiration for what became the Toyota Production System and, particularly, the Human Side of Lean. |
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Harley Davidson History In 1984 Harley-Davidson was in the last extremity, just hours away from bankruptcy. This article tells how Harley turned the tables on the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers and implemented Lean fast and cheap. |
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The Glass Ceiling of Cycle Counting Case Study A company's cycle counting program had initial success but then stalled out. This case study illustrates why counting is not enough and Error Prevention is also required. |
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Action Learning & Process Improvement While telecom companies move information at the speed of light, their business processes are somewhat slower. This case study shows how one large telecom company reduced installation time from three months to six weeks on a new type of business service. |
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The Focused Factory In Printing Focused Factory Case Study After seven years in business, Les Davis has one customer for his company -- the only customer he wants. This case study shows how one entrepreneur focused his factory and his business on a single customer with singular results. |
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Apple, Foxconn & Manufacturing Strategy How Apple Computer bungled strategy in their 1984 "Factory of The Future" and how they and their partner, Foxconn, are enjoying great success today. This case illustrates specific application of Manufacturing Strategy principles. |
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This case study taken from one of our consulting projects shows how a distributor of machine parts used inventory analysis to discover how deficiencies in their supply chain led to stockouts, lost sales and huge overstocks. |
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Manufacturing Inventory Analysis Another case study in inventory analysis--this one for manufacturing. It pointed to bottlenecks and process complexity and led to a cellular re-layout of the plant. |
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The Strategos Guide To Value Stream and Process Mapping goes beyond symbols and arrows. In over 163 pages it tells the reader how to do it and what to do with it. |
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