Assembly in Action: Manufacturing Cell Doubles Efficiency
At the beginning of 2002, Cincinnati Test Systems Inc. (Cleves, OH) had an onslaught of orders for different kinds of instruments. "We would have gotten killed if we didn't have Raven Engineering Inc.'s (Bloomington, IN) Raven Super Cell," says Fred McCoy, president of Cincinnati Test Systems.
Together with Bob Kraus, a team leader, they went over the orders and schedule. They have realized that if it wasn't for the new manufacturing cell, they wouldn't have met the schedule. Or they would've had to hire another person. "Our production process included several intermediate steps during the building of the subassemblies. The Raven Super Cell has enabled us to skip these intermediate steps and assemble the instrumentation on demand. This has allowed us to be extremely flexible when building to order," says Fred McCoy.