Preparing for Industry 4.0 Our Satcom business, iDirect’s Manufacturing Competence Centre in Belgium, leveraged CI in an ever-changing industrial environment to grow into several new verticals while paving the way for Industry 4.0 readiness. It was the first factory to receive the prestigious Factory-of-the-Future award in Belgium, back in 2015. This was reaffirmed in 2018 and 2021 and will next be reviewed in 2024. ECONOMIC ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE & PRODUCTIVITY MastPlot Reduces Lead Time and Costs Traditionally, it takes up to three weeks with the support of a contractor to complete the analysis of sea trials. From the feedback of our customers and the testing team on the lag time between sea trials and the result analysis, our quality assurance engineers from the Marine business developed an in-house programme to reduce the analysis time to one week. This decreased the lead time of post-sea trial analysis, thereby achieving cost savings of at least 50%. Improvements in our Vehicle Inspection Workflow Our Urban Solutions business has been experiencing peak hour surges for vehicle inspection services during lunchtime and late afternoons. The peak hour surges coupled with the incorporation of additional inspection procedures such as high idling emission test, has resulted in a longer waiting time for our customers. The team employed CI tools such as Ishikawa diagrams, Value Stream Mapping and Spaghetti diagrams to optimise the vehicle inspection process flow. This resulted in more than 40% reduction of the time required, as well as significant cost savings, for each vehicle inspected. Many of our CI initiatives have the added benefit of reducing our operational costs. In 2022, we achieved $31m of realised productivity savings from continuous improvement programmes 26 ST ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2022
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