Project Snapshot
For decades Sterling has been a resource provider for large automation projects. This program included ½ billion dollars of custom automation machines from several suppliers. This operation was to be the source for all the world’s markets.
Like most Tech Products, the main ingredients are Printed Circuit Boards (Surface Mount Technology) and injection molded parts. These skills combined with Lean practices and cGMP (current Good Mfg. Practices) required a wide variety of specialized skills and experiences.
Project Challenges
- Developing the automation to produce a quality product is critical to the medical device industry. Speed to market is paramount so the scheduled delivery of product was moved earlier at every opportunity.
- As a medical device with sterile components, they needed a strong validation team to quickly move them through start-up and into production.
- Developing the automation to produce a quality product is critical to the medical device industry. Speed to market is paramount so the scheduled delivery of product was moved earlier at every opportunity.
- The client needed an automation manager who would assure that each assembly machine achieved the required OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), understood what it took to reliably test components, and had the knowledge of what made vision systems reliable.
Sterling's Solution
Sterling used its EPS (Engineering Project Services) Program Manager to combine all schedules into a Master MS Project Schedule. Working directly with the Program Management Group they delivered the current schedule to manufacturing, operations, and engineering directors. There the directors compressed the schedule while maintaining the quality requirements. Because Sterling’s EPS is internally staffed, this PM was on location within days of the approved request.
