The company Manufacturer of welded parts The problem The company manufactures mechanical welded parts, mainly steel, using a machine shop setup. Its more restrictive resource was space as production capacity was used at 100%. Unable to expand its facilities, the company partnered with MELIORE to find solutions. The approach MELIORE used several tools to optimize their [...]
The company A leader in the parts manufacturing in the heavy industry. The problem The company manufacturing custom parts needed to reduce its response time of requests for quotations because of the shift in the market that made its customers more and more demanding. Because of the custom aspect of the business, the quotations had to [...]
The company A manufacturer in the transportation industry The problem The growing company needed to improve productivity and reduce delivery times. Since the communication between the administration and the factories was deficient, the company incurred loss of time due to stockouts. Its ERP system had a lot of data but was not able to provide advanced [...]
The company Manufacturer of light designer parts The problem The company manufactures custom and stock products. It was faced with the typical dilemma: the parts in stock were never the proper ones, the delivery deadlines were not met and the machines produced parts for stock instead of parts for the contract. The approach MELIORE has designed [...]
The company Confidential The problem During the negotiation of their collective agreement, employees had requests for modification of the salary scale and its operation rules. The employer had goals of satisfaction of employees and financial constraints. The approach MELIORE developed a salary scale respecting the employees’ request, and added a few levels of details. This grid [...]
The company A Quebec leader in the manufacturing of mechanical welded parts The problem The company was looking for some simple methods to plan its production and control its costs. The plant was manufacturing in very small series, with few computerized tools, and the stock-outs were frequent. The approach MELIORE has produced a very simple management [...]
The company A leader in the manufacturing of metal parts in the environmental industry The problem The company faced with strong growth wanted to change its floor plan layout in order to plan an expansion of its facility in the next few years. The approach Before changing the layout, MELIORE proceeded with a discrete-event simulation in [...]
The company A North American leader in the truck equipment manufacturing The problem The customer products are manufactured using a production line. Changes in the market forced the company to develop new products significantly larger than what it produced normally. Since the products were not suitable to be mass-produced, off-dimension products were produced outside the production [...]