Industrial Laminate Producer and Distributor www.dkgroup.com
Challenge: Poor quality performance placed large customer contracts at risk.
Process: Designed and implemented team based quality management system and customer communication process to proactively eliminate root cause problems and retain key customer.
Result: Increase in yield from 70% to 89% and monthly credits reduced by 66%. Key customer retained. Annualized impact of $1.2 million.
Experience: “Measuring and communication are changing performance. A big benefit of this process is that we (sales and operations) are regularly talking to each other and are now resolving issues”
Bob Selleck, Plant Manager