Hey everyone, welcome to this lecture. Here you will go through a lean success story titled lean training leads to $1.2 million in impacts and organization based in Schenectady, New York, known as uni locks, advanced manufacturing produced water tube and fire tube boilers. These products were used by energy service companies and various facilities including commercial and industry buildings, high rise residential towers, hospitals, military installations and schools. Their key product, UniLoc w boiler carried a 25 year warranty, though it lasted up to 40 years. Over the past few years, intellects faced a serious competition. Enhancing unit Lexus competitiveness was a necessity P, Unix decided to invest itself in lean.
It began its Lean journey by providing lean training to its employees. Almost half of the manufacturing team participated in the training designed just like this course, they understood the several concepts and various principles of lean. The Unix team then continued the lean work in the following months with the value stream mapping analysis of the company's w series, followed by related Kaizen improvements based on the value stream map data. The company embarked on projects to improve workflow, increase capacity, better utilize floor space and reduce overall lead times. They exceeded their targeted outcomes, reducing boiler delivery time to between six and 10 weeks down from 12 to 14 weeks. Those reduce labor hours translated into more competitive pricing, and recapturing of market share.
The financial impact of this training and execution of lean methodology within the organization led to some amazing benefits increased as well as retained sales of $450,000. Increased, as well as retain jobs of 39 employees. Remember, they were a small company of 40 employees only cost savings of $440,000 impact on new products worth $280,000 other financial impacts of $51,000 You can find additional details of this story on the website www.nist.gov. That brings us to the end of this lecture. Thank you for attending. See you in the next one.