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Reduction in distortion of Aluminum Alloy wheels after Heat Treatment

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:19:12 +0000

Project initiation date 15/07/2008 to 20/10/2008

Challenge

Wheels India ltd has a separate manufacturing unit for Forged Aluminum wheels catering to various truck segments abroad. Aluminum alloy wheels are single piece flow wheels without any welding operation involved.

Critical success factors (CSFs) are: Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost.

Management has directed the team to focus on quality, cost and productivity and has fixed stiff targets considering company’s long time survival and business growth.

The unit was facing a Key Result Area(KRA) of Reducing the rejection of wheels which is the high cost factor.

Productivity Improvement in HX25W Compressor

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:14:17 +0000

Productivity Improvement in HX25W Compressor housing machining cell to meet a 100% increase in customer demand (from 7100 Nos/month to 15900 Nos /month) without additional investment

Project initiation date 10/08 to 12/08

Challenge

We are Single source to Customer. Delay in supply will result in Customer line stoppage. We had to incur an investment of Rs.5 million (2 CNC machines) to meet this demand.

Productivity Improvement in Piston PO-414

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:38:00 +0000

Project initiation date

Oct’2008

Challenge

The Piston PO-414 is manufactured in our machine shop line no.2 and is supplied to our Customer, Husqvarna, USA who had projected a demand of 10752 Nos. per week, while the current production rate was 5000 Nos. per week. The quantum change (an increase in volume by 115%) in the Customer demand posed a challenge to the company to deliver “on time every time”, defect free products. Therefore Piston PO-414 was selected for productivity improvement project. However we also did PQ analysis for the last six months data.