Aviation Design & Engineering Company
Operational Diagnostics Case Study
Anonymous $15B OEM aviation design and engineering company
PROBLEM
– Delays and cost overruns creating financial pressures.
– Frustrations between manufacturing, engineering, design and supply chain.
– Continually missing schedules and targets
SOLUTION
- Developed standard forum across stakeholders to determine accountability, key metrics, deliverables, with frequent interaction to see
- Set specification ranges helped to develop trade-off curves to increase insight, reduce lead time, better inform supply chain to allow early preparation to schedule
- Created Obeya: Created first time engagement for cross-functional team to engage… created empathetic point of view vs. finger pointing/victim mentality
- Created fast prototype approach to ‘see’ and learn
RESULTS
- Created problem solving system for leaders and team to engage