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A massive amount of planning and investment goes into every new engine that Ford Motor Company design. In today’s highly competitive climate, the speed to market for new products is crucial in maintaining competitive advantage. Ford have been using WITNESS since the mid-1980s to speed up the design of their engine manufacturing facilities. In that time many engine assembly lines have been simula..

Ford has been using computer simulation for designing and operating its engine manufacturing facilities since the mid ’80s. WITNESS is available worldwide to all Powertrain users. Today, Ford regards simulation as an indispensable tool in production planning—and one which can provide what the company describes as “an enormous competitive advantage.” John Ladbrook, from the Productivity Engineeri..

Six Sigma is a structured approach to reducing variability, so enhancing the quality of products or services used by many of today’s successful companies. Six Sigma has evolved into a statistically orientated approach to process improvement, concentrating on the customer and focusing on processes. Ford Motor Company Limited is the first automotive manufacturer to adopt Six Sigma as their approac..

Advanced automated business simulation tools from Lanner Group have been used by Geest’s Delicatessen business to ensure that an increase in the range and quantity of products does not compromise the ability to deliver finished product on time. The simulation outputs have also helped to justify the correct capital expenditure, and avoid costly investment in unnecessary equipment.

Gillette is one of the world’s largest manufacturing organisations. Since the mid-1990s, Gillette has enjoyed a significant year-on-year increase in demand for its toiletry products across the world and particularly in Europe. This case study shows how Gillette’s European Toiletries Division, based in Reading UK, has maximised production efficiency to meet this demand with the help of a planning..

A simulation study was conducted on a bottle packaging line for GlaxoSmithKline, formerly Glaxo Wellcome, at their Zebulon, North Carolina manufacturing facility. The study had three objectives: 1) increase the overall productivity of the equipment, 2) alleviate bottlenecks in the production process, and 3) decrease equipment downtime. Glaxo used WITNESS to develop the models in this study. WITN..

Golden Wonder is using a combination of leading edge approaches to improve business performance through efficiency and teamwork at its Scunthorpe site. The leading crisp and snack manufacturer has engaged in an energetic and results-focussed continuous improvement programme to realise the full potential of the plant.

Hewlett-Packard is improving the performance of new inkjet handling systems by using WITNESS to optimise tooling before it’s built. HP recently developed a new flexible assembly concept in which standard components can be quickly reconfigured to handle new products and volume changes. In the concept’s early phases, HP encountered problems specifying modules because the system complexity made it ..