Anonymised Case Study Summaries

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Improved R&D Facility Utilisation & Reduced Downtime by 20%.

Implementing routine daily communications and improved labour planning vastly reduced downtime through lost information flows and plan changes. This allowed on average 2 more test slots per week to be available to customers increasing business revenue and customer satisfaction.


Reduced Test Support Department Defects from 50% to 8%, and late deliveries from 30% to 2%.

By restructuring the preparation workflow and implementing strict readiness checks, we reduced weekly test defects and increased operational reliability substantially within the department that remained consistent.


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Embedded MOD Technician Team Communications & Planning.

Building on team capabilities a central hub was created to lead all the daily team meetings around capturing issues early and creating individual improvement actions. This enabled for better issue resolution tracking with transparent ownership to who was leading improvements within the department increasing visibility and satisfaction in the CI process.


Introduced Basic Root Cause Analysis Into SME Marine Build Team.

Leading a marine sub assembly build team with root cause analysis tools to better understand root cause on mechanical and design issues across a small range of products.

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Daniel Howard

‍ Automotive R&D operations specialist, 15 years improving test, prototype & technical team operations.

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Email : daniel.howard@danryanson.com

Phone: +44 7791 185902

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