Total Savings: $23 million / year
Description of Problem
A major steel company was adding new equipment to an existing sheet coating line to improve the line speed. The line coats steel sheet for the automotive and distribution industries. The equipment had already been purchased, but since the technology had not been used before in the US, only the most basic process settings were known. The client knew that experimentation would be needed to optimize these settings, but the coating line was overbooked hence no activities were being performed prior to the scheduled installation.