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Reduce Your Costs, Improve Profits with Component Supply, Inc.

Component Supply, Inc. provides results oriented implementation and training in areas that are guaranteed to provide a return on investment greater than the cost. Productivity increase, defect prevention and cycle time reduction are just a few of the areas of expertise. This includes: Set-up Time Reduction, Cycle Time Reduction, Lean Manufacturing, Make Ready Time Reduction, plus many others. Our clients have seen customer satisfaction increase while reducing costs and increasing profits. Employee satisfaction will also increase as these vital initiatives are achieved.

In an effort to provide a total service to our clients Component Supply, Inc. a leader in pneumatic automation and motion control has developed and formed a triangulated partnership using a specialized team of professionals to achieve cost reductions and improved productivity in your facility. We have teamed with Claunch & Associates, a world leader in rapid changeover techniques, set up time reduction and lean manufacturing and De-Sta-Co Industries, another world leading manufacturer of automation products specifically capable of reducing your manufacturing costs to provide maximum customer benefit by implementing the FasTrack® 8-step method innovated by Jerry Claunch.

Our clients include small and medium size companies as well as fortune 500 companies. We have expertise in many industries such as packaging, food processing, machining, fabricating, printing, glass making, plastics of all types, and assembly to name just a few.

A Commitment to Excellence in Implementing Setup Time Reduction & Lean Manufacturing

We provide education, in-company training, courses and materials your trainers can teach, and software to support your cost improvement efforts. All of our materials are results oriented and make implementation a reality, they have been developed and refined to the point where they are proven and guaranteed to work.

Turnkey implementations

We have a fully trained staff utilizing proven methods that will reduce your setup and or changeover time. We can assess your current process, advise you on the improvements to be made, implement the improvements and provide all documentation required to continue with rapid and reliable setups. We are the worldwide leaders in implementing setup time reduction.

Training

Our staff of professionals is available to provide training for your employees. We can also provide "train the trainer" for your company training personnel in the subject areas we provide.

Consulting

Once your teams are trained, follow up consulting services are available that will ensure that your company achieves the initiatives. We work closely with your teams, facilitators and trainers so that you will be able to achieve the initiatives. The decision is yours as to when you no longer require consulting assistance.

Custom Training Development:

Our professional staff of trainers and writers is available to develop training that meets your specific needs. Our staff will spend the necessary time with your employees to ensure that the training meets the desired result. Progress reporting, along with customer approval are required, to assure that your needs are met. This enables us to guarantee that you will be totally satisfied with the finished product. The final product or improved process can be presented by your trainers or made easier using available software from Component Supply, Inc. that has been developed by our business partner C A Software, Inc.

FasTrack® Changeover Time, Set Up Time, and Make Ready Time Reduction Process

Many companies try to reduce changeover time utilizing teams of employees. Much of our work involves training and working with these teams to make changeover, set up or make ready time reduction a reality. The problem is teams typically take a long time to get substantial improvements and they don't sustain the effort long enough to achieve 50% reductions in changeover, set up or "make ready" time. Usually the changeover time reduction effort simply fades away with only small reductions in changeover on some machines. Most companies need rapid changeovers, which equates to more than a 50% reduction in changeover or set up time on many machines. Because of this, we knew there was a need for a different approach to reducing changeover time. When implementing the FasTrack® 8-step method developed by Jerry Claunch. We analyze your current changeover or set up, provide the documented suggestions on procedural improvements including actual products to accomplish the process improvements and time savings, get buy in from employees and we can fully implement the improvement. You, the customer, are in control every step of the way. You are provided complete documentation of recommendations and results to expect and must approve before implementation. If you choose, Component Supply can make the recommendations and provide the products required to obtain the process improvements and you can have your employees implement them.

The 8-steps of FasTrack® are:

1. We conduct an assessment to determine the minimum amount of improvement that is possible in your changeover, set up or "make ready" time process
2. We document your current changeover, set up or "make ready" time procedure
3. We analyze your current changeover; set up or "make ready" time procedure and develop our recommended improvements.
4. We review our recommended improvements, including costs to implement, with management.
5. We review our recommended improvements with your shop experts. (i.e. supervision, changeover experts, operators, and engineers.)
6. Once you give the go ahead, we can implement and install the improvements and then verify the results.
7. We determine the most productive sequence of changeover; set up or "make ready" time steps and document the new procedure.
8. We train all applicable employees in the new changeover, set up or "make ready" time procedure.

Typically these 8 steps break down into three phases.

PHASE 1:

1. We come to your facility to conduct an assessment to determine the minimum amount of improvement that is possible in your changeovers or set ups. First we examine your current changeover documentation, historical data, interview your changeover experts. Then we videotape a normal changeover completed by your best changeover expert including start up. Finally, we meet with management to present our initial determination of the amount of improvement we believe is possible.
2. We document your current changeover. Utilizing the videotape we took, we now identify the elements of your current changeover, and load it into our changeover time reduction software.
3. We analyze your current changeover and document our recommended improvements. Every element of your current changeover and startup is examined to determine what low cost improvements can be made, including a bill of materials to be purchased and the specific amount of time that can be reduced.

Phase 1 Objective: Identify current changeover elements and recommended improvements.

Phase 1 Deliverables:

• Element listing of your current changeover
• Implementation planner listing each specific recommendation with estimated cost and bill of materials required.

PHASE 2:

4. We review our recommended improvements, including costs to implement, with management. Typically the review with management is involved more with the resulting reduction in changeover time and the cost to implement. Once you give the go ahead, we then conduct a review with the changeover experts.
5. We review our recommended improvements with your shop experts. (i.e. supervision, changeover experts, operators, engineers and management.) This review session is very detailed and is supported with our changeover documentation, implementation planner, videotape, and pictures of improvement and catalogs of purchased items.

Phase 2 Objective: Review sessions wherein each recommendation is presented for buy in and improvement as necessary.

Phase 2 Deliverables:

• Meeting with management and supervision.
• Meeting with operators and mechanics.
• Final implementation planner including all improvements, costs and time reduced.

Our guarantee: "If Component Supply, Inc. can not identify improvements that result in at least a 50% reduction in changeover or set up time, based on the changeover or set up we document at your facility, you pay nothing for our services, no matter how much time or costs we have incurred on your behalf up until this point in time."

PHASE 3:

6. Once you give the go ahead, we implement the improvements and verify the results. We order all necessary materials, fabricate and implement all the improvements approved in step 5.
7. We determine the most productive sequence of changeover or set up steps and document the new changeover procedure. Once all improvements are implemented, we work on the sequence of the remaining changeover or set up steps and develop a changeover manual for your plant. We determine what the most efficient sequence is and layout the manual in that order, including pictures and descriptions of each step, and a checklist of the changeover steps.
8. We train all applicable employees in the new changeover procedure. Component Supply trains every employee who would do a changeover in the improved method. Both the trainer and the employee must sign off that they are capable of doing a changeover on their own.

Phase 3 Objective: Provide a turnkey implementation.

Phase 3 Deliverables:

• Complete implementation on machine changeover improvement.
• Changeover procedure manual.
• Training of employees doing changeovers.
• Changeover checklist

SPECIAL BONUS: Baseline Settings Manual

We at Component Supply have found that often after we leave, employees sometimes make adjustments to machines that reverse the improvements that have been made. Because of this, we will include a baseline settings manual for each machine we implement the changeover or set up time reduction. This manual will provide all the settings that we determine are critical to a reliable startup. In the event of a poor start up, your employees can go back to this manual and determine what settings have been changed and reset those to the proper setting. Ensuring that all employees that may adjust settings utilizing the information in this manual will ensure you always have Rapid changeovers and Reliable startups.

Changeover Time Reduction Software

FasTrack Clients

We work with large and small companies in many industries here are a few we have worked with.

Changeover & Set Up Time Reduction management software is loaded with features

Changeover Time Reduction Software allows you to:

• Identify your current changeover or set up procedures step by step.
• Develop an implementation planner. As you determine how to improve your changeover, you develop an Implementation Planner. This planner is where you make assignments with due dates, and identify improvement time and the associated costs.
• You can examine the Return On Investment for every improvement you plan, in order to determine if it meets your company guidelines for financial payback.
• Generate new changeover procedures as improvements are made to ensure changeovers are repeatable.
• Monitor the progress of multiple projects quickly and easily.
• The system manager can provide read/write or read only access to any employees.
• Generate Pareto charts to simplify identifying the most time consuming tasks.
• Generate Pareto charts by activity to identify the most time consuming activities.
• Maintain accuracy of information with pull down lists of employee names, training names, job names, departments, job classifications, employee status and shift.
• Simplifies the preparation for presentation of your results of changeover time reduction.

Changeover Time Reduction Software adapts to you, you don't adapt to it!

Far too often, companies find that they have to adapt to the software they purchase, or have someone customize the package at a high cost. Unlike other packages, Changeover Time and Set up Time Reduction software was designed to be adaptable to the user. The Information you customize are:

• Organization information
• Return On Investment guidelines
• Team membership
• Projects

Achieving rapid changeovers and set up in your company is now possible.

Many companies fail in their efforts to achieve rapid changeovers and set ups due to the fact that they have no accountability or progress tracking. Reporting of progress is time consuming and the effort falls by the wayside. Changeover Time Reduction Software solves most of these problems freeing you up to motivate and encourage completion of rapid changeovers.

The reports available in Changeover Time Reduction software are designed to provide all the reporting you need in order to make progress reporting easy. The reports include:

• PARETO CHARTS: By activity code and by element time.
• ELEMENT SEQUENCE: By element number, or by the time each takes to complete.
• NEW PROCEDURE: Showing all improvements made. This document should be used during changeover so everyone does their changeovers correctly.
• SUMMARY OF IMPROVEMENTS: Lists all the improvements that have been made to the changeover.
• IMPLEMENTATION PLANNER: This is a complete listing of all the steps identified to implement the improvements identified for your changeover.
• RETURN ON INVESTMENT: Provide financial detail for each improvement and can be provided in a detail or summary report.
• PROJECT TOTALS: Displays the time that is reduced in the changeover based on documented improvements.

Presentations on progress become a breeze No more extensive preparation for presentations. The reports provided by Changeover Time Reduction software are designed so that no time is wasted in preparing for presentations.

The Guide To Achieving Rapid Changeovers

In order to get the most benefit from the Changeover Time Reduction software, you will receive The Guide To Achieving Rapid Changeovers by Jerry W. Claunch. Jerry Claunch is a Certified Purchasing Manager, with decades of lean manufacturing experience, author of many key books on manufacturing efficiency and a recognized leader in achieving success by making our clients more competitive and profitable. You can link to the Claunch & Associates, Inc. web site for additional information by clicking on the provided link. This guide is to be used in conjunction with the Changeover Time Reduction Software and will take you step by step through the implementation process to achieve "RAPID CHANGEOVERS" As steps are presented, you will be instructed on when to update the software, and will be referred to the Software User's Guide to make those updates.

Following the steps presented in this guide will ensure you get the reductions in changeover time at your facility. This guide was developed in application not from a theoretical viewpoint. The steps contained in this guide are used by many companies today in their changeover time reduction and are proven to work.

$495.00
30 day unconditional money back guarantee

In order for you to have an opportunity to evaluate Changeover Time Reduction Software for yourself, you have an unconditional money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with Changeover Time Reduction Software, in 30 days, simply notify Component Supply, Inc. return the software in its original packaging and you pay nothing.