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Kee Tat Manufactory Holdings Limited

Improve Time - Quality - Margin

Industry: Lighting Industry

Service: LEAN 6 Sigma / BPI (-QA)

Kee Tat is a well-known OEM/ODM/JDM manufacturer of home lighting, smart products and audio products, products are exported to all over the world.

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Objectives

• Improve its working process and shorten product production cycles

• Improve after-sales customer satisfaction

• Reduce the chance of product aging

• Reduce production cost

 

Methodology

• Analyzed the potential improvement area and time compression in the working process of marking research

• Reviewed the performance appraisal system

• Developed improvement program

• Built up a incentive scheme to motivate staffs to use the improved working process spontaneously

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Achievements

• Production cycle reduced from 14 days to 2 days

• The rate of aging of filament products decreased from 3% to 0.4%, a total decrease of 87%

• Address the semi-finished product backlog and liquidized ¥ 13 million of WIP

• Save business ¥1.5 million a year on semi-finished scrap product

• Successfully reduces sluggish material by 44%

• Increase inventory turnover from 7 rpm to 14 rpm, increased by 100%

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