Case Study - Accellent: Creates a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Client
- Accellent: provider of integrated outsourced manufacturing and engineering services to the medical device industry. Provides design and engineering services, precision component fabrication, finished-device assembly and supply chain management.
- Net sales: $525.5 million in fiscal year 2008.
Challenge
- Accellent benefited from the Six Sigma blackbelt training it started in 2006, but company leaders suspected that the potential for greater performance lay dormant in its hardworking teams at 17 facilities. So they began to search for a more holistic approach to training, one that would create a lasting culture of continuous improvement throughout the enterprise.
Solution
- Partner with TBM’s LeanSigma Institute, planning a series of eight-week onsite training modules to help build a culture of continuous improvement. The Institute’s team works on:
- leadership development
- value stream mapping
- kaizen training and implementation
- certification training
- visual systems creation
- daily metrics monitoring plans
Results
- Accellent achieved over $1.7 million in cost savings during the first five months of continuous improvement training. “We were able to show the customer the difference on the plant floor right away. After they saw how we were doing lean, they became a big believer, and we started getting new product proposals coming our way.” Joe Panebianco Director of the TBM LeanSigma Institute.
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