Shorten Production Time to Overcome Fierce Competition
Wing Hon Metal Manufactory Limited (Wing Hon) is a Hong Kong-based enterprise specialising in the production of watches, straps and jewellery. Wing Hon has set streamlining processes, improving productivity, and cutting costs as its targets to strengthen its competitive edge and invited TQM to assist them to streamline the workflow.
Project Scope
- Review the overall production performance
- Recommend and help implement the improvement solutions
- Establish a mechanism to monitor the production performance
- Strengthen the control of product traceability
- Reduce batch size, shorten the waiting time between processes
Achievements
- Streamlined the workflow in the production and operation system
- Increased operational efficiency and effectiveness
- Compressed the order lead time by 65 – 75%