"This work is transformative."

Chief of Repair Engineering, multinational aerospace and defence OEM

Case study:

Significantly increase repair flowline throughput, prioritizing technically difficult, but financially beneficial schemes for a major jet engine OEM.

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QR_ impact

Working ticket value increase

Increased throughput valued at >£2.5m/year

Forward moves of high priority tickets per week

Single source of truth achieved

Engagement cost

QR_ workstreams

Workstream 1: Short Interval Control:

Ran an assessment on the state of short interval control, set a common priority of items across all control meetings and improved their efficiency through agenda tools and automation.
Setup data capture on KPI’s for successful SIC.
Streamlined all SIC meetings and toolset with regular “Health check” and governance with key Stakeholders to align priorities and escalate blockers.

Workstream 2: Reporting and Improving:

Identified existing reports & needs, metric prioritisztion, and implemented a suite of dashboards to deliver a single source of truth across the flowline.
Gathered data on key activities, analyzed impactful areas of improvement, developed, deployed & accelerated initiative project plans, setup cross-functional team to review and categorize error states, and identified 3 biggest causes of rework & established plan to drive > 50% reduction in defects.

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PDM in action: Reporting short interval control and improvement

Repair Schemes are imperative to the health of major jet engine OEMs. The current repair flowline was not meeting the required pace; therefore, QR_ was set the challenge to significantly increase throughput, while targeting technically difficult, but financially beneficial schemes.

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