| Company |
Lucent Technologies |
Division |
Bell Labs |
| Location |
Norcross – United States. |
| Company Contact |
William J. Baron, Director |
| Source of Reference |
The Management Roundtable, Executive Summit with Dr. Goldratt, April 4-5, 2000, Chicago, IL |
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| IMPLEMENTATION INFORMATION |
| Name |
Lucent Technologies |
| Location |
Norcross, GA United States |
| Industry Segment |
Telecom |
| Number of employees |
26000 |
| Area |
Optical Cable Development |
| Implementation Date |
1998 |
| Products |
Develop new leading edge optical cables for telecom industry – both inside the building cables and O |
| WHAT WAS DONE? |
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| TOC Applications |
CC |
| Processes |
Optical Cable Product development |
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| RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTATION |
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On-time performance
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| From |
40% |
| To |
100% |
| Percent improvement 60% |
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| Lead times |
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| Resources required |
| Percent improvement reduced by 67% |
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| Introduction of new products |
Lead time reduced 50% |
| Brief summary |
For Premise Cable products – 100% of projects completed on-time (Compared to 40% before); 8 projects completed before 50/50 points and New Production Introduction (NPI) lead times reduced 50%. For outside cables – NPI lead times reduced 50% and tripled development capacity (17 projects vs. 5 before, with no staff increase). |
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