"This work is transformative."

Chief of Repair Engineering, multinational aerospace and defence OEM​

The mission:

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

QR_'s approach and impact

Short Interval Control:

  1. 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.
  2. Setup data capture on KPI’s for successful SIC.
  3. Streamlined all SIC meetings and toolset with regular “Health check” and governance with key Stakeholders to align priorities and escalate blockers.​

Reporting:

  • Identified existing reports & needs, metric prioritisztion, and implemented a suite of dashboards to deliver a single source of truth across the flowline.
  • Improving.
  • 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.​

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

Quality read

A data-driven path to better NPD

Drawing on two decades in automotive, but equally applicable to any complex engineering program, this primer lays out how data-driven organizations can enjoy substantial engineering efficiency gains to mitigate current skill shortages and accelerate complex program delivery.

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