Lean/Six Sigma is perhaps the best know initiative to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality. Experts have published numerous books on Lean and some Six Sigma black belts abound to help you navigate the waters of inefficiency to find the safe harbor of process optimization.
Perceptive is not a Lean/Six Sigma consulting firm and neither do we specialize in Lean Solutions. Perceptive specializes in mobile solutions built for the particular needs of aircraft maintenance personnel. Nevertheless, our tools align well with the Lean/Six Sigma philosophy.
In simple terms Lean is the elimination of waste and the enhancement of workflow. Six Sigma addresses the quality and consistency of product and process. Waste is any process step which the end-customer is unwilling to pay for. Waste if further classified as necessary or unnecessary. Necessary waste is waste that cannot be removed because of technology limitations. This means that the technology you use dictates how much waste you must live with. Lean thinking therefore, supports using technology to increase the amount of waste that you can remove from a process. That’s the tie in to what Perceptive does.
Using our technology, you can eliminate nearly all the waste from the initial inspection process resulting in initial inspections in 50% less time. The following to excerpts are from "Hunting for Productivity Gains" by Henry Canaday that appeared in the September 2004 issue of Overhaul & Maintenance Magazine. Both quantify the efficiency improvements from production use of Perceptive’s handheld solutions.
"Goodrich has deployed hand-held electronic devices for reporting non-routine work to its customers. Together with other changes, this allows full D checks on 737s, which once required 32 to 35 days, to be done ’in the high 20s,’ Gately estimated. Goodrich can do three D's each month per hangar instead of two, meaning overhead costs can be allocated over more work."
David Gately is the Productivity manager for Goodrich Aviation Airframe Technical Services in Everett, Washington.
"Lockheed Martin Aircraft Logistics Center has been using Lean at its Greenville, S. C., facility since 1998. Quality Director Lee Withington said Lean has already been applied to hundreds of individual repair steps. For example, LMALC now uses hand-held devices to enter and report non-routine work to customers. … Overall results are strong at Greenville. The turn time on the C-130 has been reduced from 120 days to 90 days."
Regardless of what you call it, it’s the results that count. The results companies receive from choosing Perceptive as their handheld wireless solution partner speak for themselves.
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