Standardizing and Modernizing Manufacturing Quality Applications for Leading Japanese Automotive Conglomerate

Client

The client is a Japanese multinational conglomerate, manufacturing automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment.

Challenges

•  Fragmented and inconsistent manufacturing quality tracking. 
• Variances in reporting quality metrics across plants due to disparate line control applications.

LTM Solution

•  Created a common Manufacturing Quality Information System to standardize processes, procedures, terms, acronyms, and calculations. 
• Provided ability to enter defects on manufacturing line using an image or text.
• Enabled tracking of vehicle inventory during repairs.
• Enabled integration with manpower and process work instruction data to trace defects caused due to flaws in process instructions or line associate skill.

Business Benefits

• $2M cost avoidance per year.
• 40% reduction in manufacturing line defect entries
• 20% faster Defect Root cause analysis.
• Repair time reduced by 15%.