Efficiency

i-fish-uhn-see: 1. accomplishment of a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.


What We Do

  • Advance Planning - we emphasize proaction versus reaction, anticipating future problems and developments that require different action-plans, which are ready to go if needed.
  • Process Design and Improvement - we will help you design your own optimized processes. Don't catch-up to others, leapfrog ahead now with your own solutions.
  • Time/Motion Study - we can help you measure and eliminate unnecessary steps or larger processes.
  • Prioritization and Rationalization - we will give you an outside view to help determine priorities, and what can get done later, all based on different scenarios.


How We Do It
Capacity Improvement

Designing and building technical processes, procedures, and training are a specialty of ours. For example, we helped to quadruple the efficiency of a power supply test line by designing new and efficient test jigs. We have doubled the throughput of an optical test system for ONTs, including the ability to test more varieties than before. We have brought up new telco switching systems used to test thousands of units per year, on time and on budget.



Configuration Optimization

After learning of a customer's needs, we changed their original switch network configuration to dedicate individual processor frames for a dedicated purposes rather than shared processing, greatly improving both test efficiency while reducing production downtime. More thorough testing could also be accomplished, as well as easier maintenance.



Process Design

Through the use of a re-ordered production line, the set-up of secondary suppliers, and some minor addition of equipment, we improved the speed of manufacture for one product to just one-fifth (20%) of its original assembly & testing time. Our clients are intelligent and highly experienced with their own processes, but when combined with out external insight and further experience, can benefit from surprisingly large gains in productivity while costs actually drop.



Emergency Preparedness

The best way to restore operations due to a network failure, is to avoid the failure in the first place. Ransom-ware, viruses, and cracking your network can have awful consequences. We've helped multiple clients invoke multi-pronged approaches to plan for adverse network or process breakdowns, from power outages and fires, to equipment breakdown and conductive dust contamination. With proper planning and awareness, adverse events should be very few and far between, and there should be a plan of action to invoke quickly if something adverse does happen.


Efficiency can be tricky. Have a look here to see a couple of examples of why there may not be one absolute answer on best efficiency.