Throughput recovery in a two-plant industrial group
Audited under the Markham Verification Standard at month 9; run-rate re-tested at month 12. Full audit trail available under NDA.
The situation
A two-plant industrial group had order books it could not ship. Lead times had stretched from three weeks to seven, overtime had become structural rather than occasional, and the board was reviewing a $14M capacity expansion as the obvious answer to all of it. The capex case was internally persuasive and externally unexamined.
The group asked for a second opinion on the expansion. We thought the more useful question was where the existing capacity was already going, because at nameplate the two plants between them held 26% more capacity than the order book required.
Impact in detail
Baselines frozen and audited before phase one; month-9 readings verified under MKM-F-003 and re-tested at month 12.