DB&A Honors Financial Guarantee
The Challenge
Supervisors performed inconsistently and their reactive management style was driving significant amounts of lost time, excessive scrap, and slowdown in production; resulting in a poor customer experience.
About the Client
A global leader in the formulation of high performance rubber and plastic parts for the medical, pharmaceutical, water, power, and transportation industries had a management culture that lacked ownership of problems. The company employs more than 1,000 workers across five manufacturing plants around the world. Our initial engagement was with a plant in Mexico with 250 employees.
Financial Results Snapshot
DB&A Guarantee
- Proposed Project Cost: $1,025,000
- Guaranteed Savings Rate: $2,050,000
- Guaranteed ROI: 2:1
DB&A Delivered
- Actual Project Cost: $945,000
- Annualized Savings Rate: $1,880,000
- ROI: 2:1
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