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Avcorp Industries Inc.
Delta, BC
  • CNC Process Improvement
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Part Description
  • Partition in airplane
  •    (also known as bulkhead)
  • Set-up, preparation, and run time of one partition was timed at 96 minutes
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Objectives
  • Decrease potential for quality error
  • Reduce set-up and preparation time
  • Simplify operating procedures
  • Reduce cycle time
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Observations
  • Excessive time spent on the following:
  • Placing plastic on the partition material
  • Taping the partition to the table
  • Too many programmed tools changes
  • Unnecessary cutting of a test pocket
  • Slow cutting speeds
  • Too many cutting passes on various pockets
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Lean Solutions
  • Fabricated a template to place on top of partition material to replace the plastic
  • Changed programming along the profile to stabilize scrap and eliminate need for taping parts to machine
  • Eliminated 28 tool changes
  • Increased feed speed 4X
  • Eliminated test cut
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Lean Results
  • Reduced set-up, preparation, and run time of one partition from 96 minutes to
  •                           28 minutes
  • Increased productivity by
  •                            71 %