Fort Walton Precision Machining supplies aluminum consoles for various types of electronic measurement devices used in hospitals and clinics. The devices are manufactured by Health Care Electronics, Inc. During the awareness stage of the development of their supplier-buyer partnership,both companies agreed to allow team to visit their production machining spent a week in the production facility of Health Care Electronics, Inc. observing how their consoles were used and talking to production personnel. At the same time, a team from Health Care Electronics, Inc. visited Fort Walton Precision Machining.
Fort Walton Machining personnel discovered that two simple design changes in its consoles would allow Health Care Electronics personnel to eliminate two whole steps in their assembly process. Correspondingly, Health Care Electronics personnel found that Fort Walton Precision Machining was spending an inordinate amount of time achieving a surface finish on a part of its consoles that did not require such a finish. In all, the two teams were able to identify ways to cut costs by 13 percent.
Fort Walton Precision Machining supplies aluminum consoles for various types of electronic measurement devices used in hospitals and clinics. The devices are manufactured by Health Care Electronics, Inc. During the awareness stage of the development of their supplier-buyer partnership,both companies agreed to allow team to visit their production machining spent a week in the production facility of Health Care Electronics, Inc. observing how their consoles were used and talking to production personnel. At the same time, a team from Health Care Electronics, Inc. visited Fort Walton Precision Machining. Fort Walton Machining personnel discovered that two simple design changes in its consoles would allow Health Care Electronics personnel to eliminate two whole steps in their assembly process. Correspondingly, Health Care Electronics personnel found that Fort Walton Precision Machining was spending an inordinate amount of time achieving a surface finish on a part of its consoles that did not require such a finish. In all, the two teams were able to identify ways to cut costs by 13 percent.
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