Concerted Bottleneck Relief Initiative

Increase production capacity without investment? Increase yield from existing plants? That’s the target of the CBR-Initiative. CIM Aachen configures the required methodological building blocks for different industries.

And these building blocks are:

Planning - Verification - Scheduling - Stabilisation

Who benefits from a CBR-Initiative?

• Process industry with capital-intensive bottlenecks
• Manufacturing companies with shared resources
• Companies seeking CAPEX (capital expenditure) reduction
• Companies with slowing growth rates

The point is to release bottlenecks. And that means: to stir the reserve margin of production into action!

• Reduce througput times
• Increase on-time delivery
• Avoid capital expenditures
• Increase OEE (overall equipment efficiency) up to 20%

There is no reserve margin?

• Do you manufacture according to customer demand or do you schedule for a constant load level trying to avoid change overs?
• Do you verify delivery dates or do you hope for a sufficient "On-time"-rate?
• Is your production schedule reliable or do you rush delivery dates with inventory and overtime?
• Do you stabilize manufacturing processes or do you praise your ingenuity in case of disruptions?

If only one of these statements applies for your company, then you do have reserve margins.

Where do you find the reserve margins?

The reserve margin materializes as

• inventory
• back log
• overtime (constant level)
• scrap and rework
• machine downtimes
• re-scheduling

Where to start? CBR-Workshop

1. Green-field approach to identify the upper limit of production yield
2. Oppose the "Greenfield"-output to the actual production yield
3. Identify the reserve margin
4. Set up of an action plan