Facility Design Consulting and Industrial Engineering

Avison Young and DeHart Consulting partnered to provide construction management and industrial engineering services for Waymo.

32,000 sf warehouse converted to a fleet tech service garage, with:

• 15 service bays, complete with lifts, alignment and balancing machines and exhaust system.
• Service area workstations and work benches, new restrooms and shower, new pantry
• Secure parts and storage cages, with shipping and receiving bay
• 1 interior EV charger
• Office space with conference room, micro kitchen, expanded electrical closet
• Phase 2 involved replacing ADA lift with ADA compliant ramp.

Services

• Facility Design
• Capacity requirements planning
• Traffic flow optimization

Vendor Coordination

• Production Equipment
• Information Technologies
• Architect Interface

CalAmp is a technology company that specializes in telematics hardware and software and was struggling with high costs and an inefficient factory. DCI was engaged to assist in restructuring the Supply Chain, Physical, and Organizational design of the company to improve its performance and profitability.

The factory was redesigned into customer-focused modular teams along with all associated capital equipment. The Supply Chain was re-organized into major commodity bundles, contracts renegotiated in a Liability-limiting, highly flexible procurement framework, and overall material costs were reduced by 35%. Demand-pull logistical technologies were implemented in the factory execution systems, reducing WIP and FG levels by 60%. New Product Introduction teams were developed reduce time-to market and customer satisfaction.

The company’s operations were successfully turned around and profitability rapidly improved. The company's stock moved from less than $2 per share to over $45 per share within 2 years of its transformation.

Services

• Lean Manufacturing
• Facility Design
• Supply Chain Strategy

Vendor Coordination

• Production Capital Equipment
• Information Technologies
• Direct Material Suppliers

Pure Fishing is an 80-year old company with storied brands such as Berkeley baits and Abu-Garcia reels and was struggling to keep up with the demands of world-class customers such as Walmart. The company was generating obsolete inventory and not meeting its customers’ On-Time Delivery expectations

DCI was engaged to assist in the physical and organizational transformation of the company into highly focused, high-volume, factories based on Lean Manufacturing Methods.

The factory was divided into individual business units with operational KPIs and customer-focused organization structures, and then physically redesigned to meet its externally-focused demands for line, bait, rods, and reels.

The company’s operations were successfully turned around and profitability rapidly improved. It later attracted a $1.3B investment from a Private Equity firm.

Services

• Lean Manufacturing
• Facility Design
• Construction Oversight

Harmonic is leading the transformation for video, cable and media companies, with smarter, faster, and simpler solutions. Increased demand resulted in order high backlogs and longer production cycle-times that DCI addressed with Demand-pull production technologies.

• Modular manufacturing facility design maximized flexibility for future changes
• Production rate and capacity analysis-driven design
• Point-of-use inventory storage with auto-replenishment
• Dock-to-stock supplier awards to improve efficiency.
• 30% reduction in material costs with improved strategic procurement methods.
• Design met the needs of the 5-year forecast.
• 2x increase in capacity and inventory turns.

Services

• Facility Design
• Construction Oversight
• Supply Chain Strategy

Vendor Coordination

• Architects
• Construction Trades
• ESD Facilitation
• Raw Material Suppliers