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For a Fortune 500 Computer Company, utilized our proprietary process optimization analytics and experimental design techniques to optimize process yields and diagnosed/improved the management processes at a hard disk assembly plant. Increased first pass yields by 41% in 3 months while reducing raw and WIP inventories by 34%.

For a Fortune 500 computer company, an engagement to diagnose, refocus and manage the operational turnaround of a failing Greenfield start-up of the gating production facility for a crucial new computer product family. The successful turnaround of this critical facility was identified as the most successful consulting engagement ever executed at this company. Outcome increased output capacity by 10x and reduced inventory turns by 3x.

For a Fortune 500 computer maker, an engagement to assess and redefine the project plan for the conversion of a large circuit board assembly facility to Surface Mount Technology.

For a personal computer company pursuing an IPO, an engagement sold jointly to the company and the lead Investment Bank to assess the strategic and operational feasibility of the business case driving the IPO. Identified major operational, management and financial outages that would gate a successful IPO and defined a comprehensive plan to address the outages.

For an electronic instrumentation manufacturer, an engagement to develop a strategic sourcing strategy for their surface mount technology board requirements included finding and assessing potential supply partners, crafting the strategic sourcing agreement, facilitating the closure of the partnership and managing the operational transition out of internal manufacture.

For a major computer manufacturer, an engagement to review the design of a new Brownfield hard disk assembly factory, original design was developed around a very complicated material handling system, demonstrated the weakness of the planned approach and developed a completely new facility design focused on minimizing the yield learning curve, the major lever of lifecycle value creation, design encompassed all aspects of factory beyond individual process step definition, i.e. Facility design including clean room specification, process layout, material handling system design, visual quality and visual material control systems.

For a Fortune 500 office electronics company, an engagement to assess/recast their sourcing/manufacturing strategy to launch a new, low-end product platform as a key part of a corporate strategy refocusing, included interviewing 30 key suppliers and leading a CEO roundtable with client executives and supplier CEOs. Resulted in a successful new strategic sourcing strategy and facilitated the successful rollout of the new product family.