

Case Study
Restructuring at a Builder of Luxury Yachts
Restructuring and optimization of production
Company Details
• The company (sales: €14m, earnings: €-5.4m) is part of a German group (sales: €122m)
• Location in France, 200 employees, 4 lines
Situation and Challenge
• Highly loss-making, high staff turnover, low-skilled employees
• Inefficient, no production planning, no process orientation, no work preparation
• Lack of internal communication, low integration with parent company
Objective and Tasks
• Increase in output and production capacity
• Reduction of production hours per model
• Integration into the group
Measures and Approach
• Introduction of the group-wide system, daily 15 minutes defect recording
• Shopfloor management, processing of the defect list “LOP” (list of open points)
• Installation of a display board with the KPIs quality, hours, absence
Results and Achievements
• Daily exchange between development and production
• Internal material transport is carried out by internal logistics
• Tracking of the KPI “hours per production cycle”
• Increase of production output by more than 30%
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