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The Pacific Scientific HTL e-Kanban Transformation
Pacific Scientific HTL, an internationally renowned maker of
aerospace safety equipment and military defense hardware,
adopted lean manufacturing several years ago in an effort to
reduce inventory levels and increase the speed of product
through their plants. A key component of their lean journey was
to institute a kanban system that would govern the flow of
materials from their suppliers and through their facility. While
visual cues governed their internal production kanban system,
fax releases signaled their suppliers.
After a year and a half of using the paper fax release system,
it was clear that it simply didn’t scale for PS/HTL’s 100-plus
suppliers, more than 100 fax numbers over 3500 parts on kanban,
and 2000 signals sent each month. With numerous points of
possible failure—did a fax get sent? Was it received? Was it
legible? Was it acted on?—the system encouraged inefficient
behavior all around.
Clearly PS/HTL needed a way out of the paper fax morass and into
some kind of controlled, electronic kanban system. As PS/HTL’s
Purchasing Manager Cari Gintz says, “What led us to decide to go
electronic kanban, was sheer frustration and the need to start
managing instead of reacting.”
A 20-minute webcast demonstration of Datacraft Solutions’
e-kanban product had alerted Gintz to a system that aligned
perfectly with what PS/HTL needed: a system that was easy to
learn and use for buyers, planners, and suppliers, and visible
enough that everyone involved could do their jobs without
constant confusion and supply worries cutting into productivity.
Datacraft Solutions and Gintz approached their work together as
a project with measurable goals and a clear, phased
implementation strategy. These were some of the specific goals
PS/HTL targeted:
• Be assured of getting what’s ordered, and only what’s ordered,
at the expected date • Handle the unpredictable—spikes in demand
and other exceptions—predictably • Get a clear picture of the
health of every cell and kanban at any time • Automatically
calculate expected-on-dock delivery dates based on replenishment
lead times • Rapidly bring suppliers on board and provide them
visibility of the kanbans they support • Shorten replenishment
times based on true schedules rather than one-size-fits-all
guesswork • Evaluate and motivate supplier performance based on
accurate tracking of delivery times and quantities
Datacraft Solutions www.datacraftsolutions.com Matthew Marotta
800-819-5326
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