Materials Info : Your partners for Materials&Processes

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Your Pain Areas1. Receipt stage:Material not to specProcess related issuesSurface protectionOther issues

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Our solutions :Working with your suppliers to reduce rejections in the incoming stage for materials/processes followed by rejections at supplier factory , Thus increasing your response time for new developments and reducing development and supply costs.

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2. Critical Field failure i.e IPTV and design validation failures

Our solutions:Working closely on your field failure/IPTV Data and carry out root cause analysis with problem solving tools alongwith internal teams to bring

down IPTV, thus improving reliability of the product and improving brand image in case of

IPTV and reducing the overall development time

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3. In process rejections:Our solutions :1.Working through your complete process flow2.Finding out the specific root cause to bring down the rejections , thus resulting in improved productivity, reduction in cost associated with the rejections.

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4. Low Process yield :Our solutions :1.Study of the complete manufacturing process at all stages2.Optimizing the process to improve yield.

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5. High development time for new products:Our solutions :1.Study of the complete process for new project introduction.2.Working on all stages of new product development3.Finding out the bottleneck areas4.Plugging the same to reduce the Development time and thus increasing response for new developments

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6. High DMC ( Direct material cost) :Our solutions :

1. Study of the complete design stages2. Study the application of the part and

associated load/working stresses/environment.3. Suggest optimization of part and alternate

grade /type materials to reduce cost.

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7. High cost of Imported Raw material/steel/components:

Our solutions: 1. Study the application in detail

2. Work with the steel mills/raw material source/component manufacturer

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8. Delay in response/developing export applications:Our solutions:1.Study of the raw material , standards and equivalent2.Study of the whole manufacturing process spec and sequence

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9. Delay in taking up projects intensive to new materials/processes/surface protection adding

value to end customer :Our solutions:

1.Benchmarking for various materials and processes

2.Trend analysis for new developments in materials and processes

3. Start pilot study /trials for the same4. Project introduction

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10.Lack of Early Vendor involvement:Our solutions:

1. Involving your vendors in early stage of development.

2. Working with them continuously to bring down manufacturing process and material

costs during development

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11.Weight above benchmark with low fuel efficiency:

Our solutions:1.Study of benchmark vehicle

2.Alternate materials, constructions and design to bring down the weight including design with

Aluminium, hybrid and plastic.3.Working with internal teams for ride/handling

and durability aspect of proposed design till implementation.

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Other Support Areas:1.Working with internal project teams in the

area of QFD, DFMEA, Design for six sigma ,reliability, Lean process .

2.Awareness trainings for Quality systems, DFMEA, manufacturing process, materials technology, other Quaity tools including

problem solving both for the organisation and the critical suppliers i.e development partners.3.Design validation right from data acquisition support, understanding usage requirement, QFD, co ordination with external test labs for

design validation, materials and process validation, dimensional and other tests.

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