General Aviation Company
Operational Diagnostics Case Study
Anonymous $250M general aviation aircraft company. USA
PROBLEM
– Aircraft throughput and inconsistent quality could not meet growing demand.
– Delivery lead times were 18 months versus the industry expected 6 months losing sales.
SOLUTION
- Hoshin Kanri: Connected and dedicated support functions and disciplines to the value stream to drive front line performance and problem solving speed
- NPI: Developed product development process to fuel innovation pipeline: concept to production
RESULTS
- Top line growth from $50m/yr to $250M/yr.
- Gross Profit (normalized) from -.1 to +.3
- Production Lead time start to finish from 18 to 6 months