Hebeler Corporation
Hebeler Corporation – a designer and fabricator of custom pressure vessels, heat exchangers and piping systems with facilities in Western New York and Ontario, Canada – requires continual focus on quality and cost effectiveness to remain competitive. TCIE first assisted Hebeler in 2002 by supporting ISO 9001:2000 certification and has continued to help the company in its quest to employ state-of-the art cost reduction, waste elimination, material movement and product quality methods.
- Extensively trained 20 employees in Lean tools, including 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Pull/Kanban, Operations Balancing, Set-up Reduction and Cellular Flow
- Trained a select number of role-based employees in the DMAIC methodology, including: one Green Belt, five Black Belts and one Master Black Belt
- Supported continuous improvement efforts with four student Black Belt candidates over four years
- Implemented methods to produce a corporate culture that values problem-solving and new approaches to challenges
- Quadrupled annual revenues from $20 million in 1998 to $80 million by 2009, in part due to a new culture, deployment of a structured method, and management’s adoption of these same practices
- Saved $280,000 annually by reducing direct labor requirements by several thousand hours
- Saved $30,000 by uncovering a misplaced container of parts
- Cut costs by an estimated $150,000 annually after lowering in-bound freight costs by sharply reducing the number of carriers
Quadrupling revenue
Read how TCIE helped Hebeler Corporation move from GE Energy’s "10 worst vendors" list to receiving the GE Supplier Excellence Award in Compliance.