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A five-year investment plan with a vehicle manufacturer
Our automotive division works to multi-year programmes, which is what makes tool maintenance and capacity planning possible rather than reactive.
Automotive tier work runs on programme timescales rather than order timescales. A five-year plan lets tool maintenance be scheduled against projected shot counts instead of being triggered by a quality drift.
It also makes capacity planning honest on both sides. The customer knows what capacity is reserved and we know what to reserve, which removes the annual negotiation about whether volumes will materialise.
The same discipline carries into the medical division. A programme that is planned is a programme where tool condition, validation status and capacity are known quantities rather than discoveries.
Specifications
| Timescale | Five-year programme rather than per-order |
|---|---|
| Enables | Tool maintenance scheduled against shot count |
| Also enables | Capacity reserved on both sides, transparently |
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