Federal Mogul Case Study

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David’s company Federal Mogul has a few future projects that David was able to discuss with us. The rest are confidential. The first is re-instituting a LEAN system. Federal Mogul no longer has a LEAN system in place, but David and his colleagues again see it as beneficial. This started when the new CEO recently started observation of warehouses’ OAE (Operations Assets Efficiency), which tracks down time. He saw that there was increasing down time and that they were below capacity in warehouse. The new project David is doing is trying to implement LEAN in warehouses to solve these efficiency problems. So far, he has found that there was machine problems that were causing tons of scrap metal that was not being repurposed and …show more content…

David plans to use a similar to the “5 whys” to find the root causes of the machine problems so that they can achieve maximum efficiency. This is in an effort to reduce costs and reduce the amount of stock needed. As Vice President of Quality & Customer Satisfaction Powertrain Segment it is his duty to increase efficiency and quality in all departments.
Federal Mogul’s next order of business is too build a new RDC facility, because eliminating all RDC’s was a mistake. It was bad for competition with Companies like AutoZone. RDC stands for “Regional distribution Center”. These facilities were eliminated so that they can ship directly from RPC’s or Regional Production Centers. The idea was to eliminate what was seen as unnecessary costs.
Furthermore, Federal Mogul is trying to take lead as the number one distributer in Pistons/Cylinders. Federal Mogul is currently the leading supplier of Friction (brakes, disks, ext.), but is just number two in Pistons/Cylinders. He did not further elaborate on his methods to take the lead in Pistons/Cylinders, but it seams as if Federal Moguls strategy in this endeavor may be to buy up as many smaller suppliers of these products as

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