What about Cross Industry Solutions?

You mentioned Cross Industry solutions, can you tell about your experience with it?

An Industrial Design Engineer from Delft is educated to cope with problem solving for both mass production and small series production. Designing for small series means that there is no budget for development and this only leaves standard modules, proven concepts as realistic options for a design.

In production there are often situations related to a specific situation: a regulations problem, a quality/safety problem or production capacity. The production pressure and the narrow defined circumstances require to look for a benchmark solution related to the specific issue in industry. Zero Defects per Million and Toyota PS experience help to narrowly define what is required. It often results in simplicity.

Cross Industry Solutions:

- Swatch watch lens assembly technology for high volume consumer electronics assembly.

This technology helped to bring speed in production by introducing a reliable and clean working environment.

- a Poka Yoke system for assembly of safety parts-automotive industry.

An assembly aid costing just 15,000 Dutch florins(Dfl) enabled fast and error-free production, successfully replacing a planned 150,000 Dfl automated system. Parts that did not belong to the scheduled set could not be built together and would not fit in the assembly aid or fall out.

- Production system of competitor(parts for safety products)-automotive.

More simple, easier maintenance.

Amidst the pressure of a merger, the advantages of the new partner's programs were not yet recognised as 'ours'.

- Tuna Can tech for a high volume electronics programme.

Zero defects coil coating ensures a robust supply chain. The frail oxides coating of the heat sink partly got lost during processing and did not transfer enough thermal energy of the electronics. The lacquer of the coil coated part provided a robust infrared absorption function. The resulting temperature window enabled market introduction of the new consumer electronics programme.

- Plastics supplier providing insight with the Taguchi method.

Consumer electronics regulations problem related to plastic covers. The Taguchi analysis pointed the research in a completely new direction. The resulting solution sucessfully prevented a cost escalation that would have doubled  the procurement price of the plastic granulate(a volume of millions/year, parts weight 2-3kg).