IMEG was hired by a leading manufacturer of top-quality tents & event equipment to develop standard times for all their products.
THE PROBLEM
Customer has no previous time studies or standard time for any of their products
Customer has difficulty scheduling production and supplying accurate lead times
Vast product variation for studies, it would take years to time study each individual product
THE PLAN
Develop a standard assembly process to group some of the assembly processes that apply to multiple products, to allow engineers to study select products
Meet with the customer team to confirm standard assembly process groupings
Time study products and record time for each standard assembly process
standard assembly process
THE RESULTS
All products were timed and captured through the standard assembly processes
Standard times were calculated for all products
The times were used to help the customer team to properly schedule their production employees and give customers accurate lead times on all products
time study
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