| Project Management is a valuable function that manufacturers need to assure their programs stay on track. Very often, projects fall behind schedule and exceed budget costs because of failure to manage their projects to a well-defined plan. Foundry Support Operations experts have provided the service of managing programs for clients, being a liaison between our client and their customer and teaching clients how to successfully create project plans and manage their programs. |
For example, a client needed to have castings as part of their product assemblies but didn’t have the resources or expertise in their engineering and procurement organizations to find casting sources and define quality acceptance criteria. Foundry Support Operations conferred with them to understand the parts, took their electronic models and researched casting suppliers, discussed program needs such as lead times, costs, tooling, etc. and provided quotations to the client. In addition, we recommended quality acceptance criteria that matched what is typically required for parts of the functionality that was being designed. |
In another case, a manufacturer had products that have hundreds of parts in the bills of material. Their ability to deliver on time to their customer depended on having the correct parts in inventory as well as on-time delivery in their internal supply chain. They identified their opportunity to improve customer relations as being more consistently on time with their deliveries. Our client contacted us to be the mentor to a newly established staff of program managers where we would train them to develop project plans, monitor status of key process steps, maintain cognizance over key components and develop a strong communications link with their customer. |
