In barely 3 months, the teams at the Atlantic group site in Billy-Berclau have succeeded in digitizing their AIC visual management materials (TOP 5, TOP 30, etc.). Supports fully interconnected with their other plant management solutions, with total autonomy in the deployment and continuous improvement of their supports. How ? Explanations.
Discover the feedback from Groupe Atlantic, site of Billy Berclau
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“At Atlantic, we like to have our hands on our tools: so I was looking for an intuitive solution, which would allow us to be quickly autonomous, and above all flexible because we do things our way, lists the production manager. I studied several solutions on the market: only Pingflow ticked all the boxes.”
François Huyge, Production manager
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Goals
Based on this observation, François Huyge therefore set out to find a solution allowing him to digitize the AICs of his factory.
With very clear expectations:
- a system that simplifies and streamlines the retrieval of production information, and its visual “translation” into clear indicators,
- a solution that centralizes and monitors the various action plans for the plant and
- for each line a solution that can be easily integrated into the site’s information system.
Challenges
In the factory of the Atlantic group in Billy-Berclau (62), started in 2016 with 50 people, the factory dedicated mainly to the production of heat pumps today employs 500, “produces” more than 200,000 products per year and plans to further accelerate to 350,000 in the next two years.
Before turning to Pingflow, the Atlantic teams in Billy-Berclau organized their AICs in the traditional way: whiteboards, paper prints, cards for actions to be taken, Powerpoint presentations, etc.
The problem ? This system, efficient and well established, but “operators spent their time copying information from whiteboards to computer files, and vice versa, with all the risks of loss of information and errors that this entails. ”, laments François Huyge. And with more than 40 daily rituals to organize, the time counter climbs very quickly…
Solutions
From design to animation: an intuitive solution
Last factor that allowed Atlantic to move so quickly in the deployment of its digital AIC project: the ease of use of Pingflow.
“In terms of wallboard design, the solution is very intuitive: you don’t need to be a computer scientist to achieve it”, François Huyge.
Same observation on the side of the end users (line animators and operators), who quickly appropriated Pingflow, and in particular Table, the “No Code” database management solution integrated into Pingflow, which notably makes it possible to create interactive input (for reporting incidents, absences, etc.), but also all action plans, documented, sorted, prioritized… and up to date.
A few months after this rapid deployment, the Atlantic teams have already identified a triple gain: of time in the preparation of AICs efficiency of these rituals, with more concentrated teams of impact, with better monitored action plans, and better visibility on the activity
Results
- For the first, which was François Huyge’s main objective at the start, the observation is clear: 80% of what the facilitators had to re-enter before the meeting is now automatically available on the wallboard. “Clearly, the half-hour spent by AIC looking for and copying information has almost disappeared”, welcomes the production manager.
- For the second, François Huyge observes that having a single support (the screen that broadcasts the wallboard) and an interactive support, makes the rituals more participatory and the teams “more attentive and more in the discussion”.
- For the third, the digitization of action plans is a big plus. And beyond that, its objective of having a more synthetic and precise overview of the “pulse of the factory” (essential especially during the TOP 30) is largely fulfilled.
