Heavy Equipment Factory Retool Recovery
A factory retool that fell behind while the old assembly line still had orders to fill.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Midwest
- Market
- Manufacturing
- Our role
- Schedule recovery
- Size
- 480,000 SF retool
- Delivery
- Design-Build
- Duration
- 16 months
- Completed
- 2024
What was at stake.
New tooling was late and foundation work found buried utilities. The plant could not shut down the old line until the new one was proven, and the original plan assumed a single cutover weekend.
What we did.
Beck Franklin's role: schedule recovery. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Remaining work
We rebuilt the remaining schedule from a field walk, not from the last update.
Staged cutover
The single cutover was split into three stages, so production moved to the new line one cell at a time.
Daily tracking
During each cutover stage, progress was tracked daily against the plan with the plant manager.
Orders protected
Production planning used the recovery schedule to place orders on the line that would be running.
What the team delivered.
The old line had to keep shipping. The recovery plan moved production a cell at a time so it could.
Recovery scheduler, Beck Franklin
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