Tag: shop floor

Global Packaging Machine Shop Optimization Demand for production machines quadrupled as post-pandemic conditions limited supply availability. 390% growth Improved shop floor forecasting, utilization, management tools, and communications Developed effective systems to support on-time delivery performance, transparency, and growth capacity.

Global Packaging
Machine Shop Optimization

If your recycling bins are fuller than they used to be, you’re not alone. Macroeconomic and social trends are driving growth in the packaging sector, including enhanced sustainability expectations and increasing consumer reliance on e-commerce. Manufacturers of boxes, cans, pouches, plastic containers, tubes, cartridges, rolls, and more are grappling with the associated...
Resource Utilization Resource Whiplash: From Ferocious "Battle for Talent" to Hasty Job Cuts 80% of CEOs say they are or will consider downsizing their employee base in the next 6 months Rather than cut talent you may not be able to replace, we recommend: - Exploring all cost management levers - Implementing robust SIOP to support timely, informed course correction - Redesigning facilities, processes, and workplow to more effectively match labor with demand

Resource Utilization
Resource Whiplash: From Ferocious "Battle for Talent" to Hasty Job cuts

Got whiplash? We went from a ferocious “battle for talent” to talk of widespread job cuts in the span of just a few weeks. A recent CEO survey found that 80% of leaders are or will consider downsizing their employee base in the next 6 months. But before we resort...
Automotive Aftermarket Maximizing Throughput and Flow Kormac helped a leading manufacturer of truck caps, covers, and cargo systems to achieve: - 50% throughput improvement - 32% labor content reduction - Quality: right first time enhancement "Kormac found innovative and cost-effective solutions that improved Right First Time quality, throughput, and employee morale." - Client CEO

Automotive Aftermarket
Maximizing Throughput and Flow

A leading automotive aftermarket manufacturer was facing large impending order volumes and turned to Kormac for help in improving throughput, quality, and facility flow. Together, we developed a future vision for one-piece flow through their entire operation. Because new equipment proved cost prohibitive, Kormac and the client team sought to...