Elite know-how in bearings and bearing components industries under technical, organizational, strategical and commercial points of view allows to support clients to understand the gaps in all their processes with respect to international benchmark and to define effective actions plan to cover them.
The below-described approach can be used for any high-series and high-precision mechanical part production (including the finished bearings). Special focus is here given to the rolling elements manufacturing.
Elite supports steel balls and rollers manufacturers to upgrade their manufacturing technology, to train both management and workers to new practices, to produce high quality products and to increase the company sales and financial profitability.
Elite method is based on two steps:
1. Gap Analysis phase, with duration between 2 and 7 days (aimed to conduct a detailed analysis of each company process – including the manufacturing one – in order to identify the main gaps respect to the international best practises of the industry and to propose actions plan based on short and medium-term priority).
2. Implementation phase, with duration between 12 and 36 months (aimed to support the client to implement the main actions on the field, training the personnel on lean thinking principles and on technical process know-how and using the wide network of Elite partners and collaborators to speed-up the improvements achievement and to maximize the benefits).
The approach is based on elimination of no added-value operations, on introduction of best technologies and on streamlining of production flows. Examples of results achieved in previous projects are the following ones:
ü Increase of company sales of +300%;
ü Increase of Net Income Before Taxes of 10 times;
ü Reduction of customer complaints of more than 95%;
ü Reduction of manufacturing through-put time to 24 hours;
ü Stable and reliable production of G3 and G5 quality balls;
ü Improvement of cash flow of more than 5 million US$.
