Manufacturing Project Summaries
General
Electric
Hughes Aircraft
LTV Aerospace & Defense
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General
Electric
- Over
$30 million in process improvements
- One
of the first architectures for Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
DACOM worked
with General Electric to accelerate their enterprise integration and
product data integration initiatives. Through various projects - including,
General Electric Customer Logistics Center Product Data Standardization,
Product Life Cycle and Manufacturing Planning - DACOM used reengineering
methods to facilitate the development of General Electric's Computer-Integrated
Manufacturing Architecture. The DACOM-General Electric partnership
yielded over $30 million in process improvements and one of the first
corporate architectures for Computer Integrated Manufacturing. DACOM
also worked with General Electric to explore enabling technologies
for enterprise-wide data integration and technology investment planning.
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Hughes
Aircraft Corporation
- 30%
to 80% increases in individual line capacity
- Reduction
in design cycle times and manufacturing rework
DACOM helped Hughes
Aircraft Corporation redefine the design, manufacturing and distribution
of electronic circuit boards.
Hughes Aircraft Corporation's senior managers recognized that significant
barriers between engineering and manufacturing organizations were
causing design issues and lengthy design-to-manufacturing cycles.
Hughes management also believed these issues were preventing optimum
use of manufacturing capacity and impeding the application of advanced
technology. DACOM worked with Hughes, using Visioning, Baseline Activity
Analysis, Benchmarking and Integration Planning Techniques to erase
barriers and create an efficient and integrated process. The team
was able to cut through the "not-invented-here" syndrome
to reduce the total number of manufacturing lines and increase individual
line capacity from 30% to 80%. Through segmentation into prototype
and production product bases, Hughes was able to significantly decrease
design cycle times and manufacturing rework due to design issues.
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LTV
Aerospace and Defense Company
- Secured
industry leadership position
- Positioned
divisions for profitable mergers
DACOM assisted
LTV's Aircraft and Missiles Divisions in establishing management strategies
for computer-integrated manufacturing and enterprise integration.
Working with an LTV team and a coalition of industry partners, DACOM
helped testablish a management framework for achieving a "Factory
of the Future" vision. The team defined a comprehensive template
for integrating business processes throughout the entire product life
cycle, including the use of concurrent engineering concepts and flexible
manufacturing systems. DACOM also used Change Control Architecture
methods and techniques to help a cross-functional team from the Missiles
Division establish an enterprise integration and performance improvement
strategy.
LTV's vision for computer-integrated manufacturing helped the company
meet its goal of industry leadership in aerospace subcontracting.
The Aircraft and Missiles Divisions have each successfully merged
with other aerospace companies as part of the industry restructuring.
The enterprise integration analysis was used to help facilitate this
merger.
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