The client is one of the leading business aviation services companies in the world. Close to 6,000 employees cater to client needs from over 25 airport facilities throughout Europe, Middle East, Asia and North & South America. Jet aviation provides maintenance, completions, refurbishment, engineering, fixed base operations, along with aircraft management, charter services, aircraft sales and personnel services. The project site is located in Basel Switzerland.
The Foster's Group is a brewing icon, It is responsible for such great brands such as Victoria Bitter, Carlton Draught Pure Blonde and Crown Lager. The Yatala Plant located in Queensland is one Foster's largest production facilities. 330 employees are engaged at the site which produces Foster's own brands of beer, spirits and ready to drink mixed spirits.
Beelgara Estate is based in Griffith, NSW. Its business model involves contracting vine growers to produce grapes that will satisfy the market wine mix (several white and red varieties). They produce several Beelgara branded wines. They also contract process for other wine businesses. Beelgara take in the grape harvest for around 8 to 12 weeks from around February each year. This intake is processed through juice extraction processes, various additives are added and the juice is then stored. Beelgara has a storage capacity of 9m litres of wine. The packaging side of the business then pulls from this stored product for the remainder of the year. Packaging have three lines, one for premium wine bottling (65% of the wine) and the remainder is packaged in casks (cardboard packaging with an internal pouch).
Turbomeca Australia is one of six Civil and Defence Helicopter Engine repair and overhaul centres world wide. They are part of the Safran Group who have corporate headquarters in France. They maintain and repair the Arriel 1 series of turbine engines that power such helicopters as, Eurocopter, Sikorsky and Agusta. Turbomeca Australasia (TAA) employees approximately 100 staff and are situated in Sydney NSW.
A world leading analgesic medicine manufacturer supplying Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East. An increase in production was required to meet demand but no extra resource was available. The company had recently purchased new equipment to support the required increase in manufacture, but no standards or instructions had been set, so usage of the new equipment was at a minimum. Senior Management had been trying to implement a Lean Production System for 2 years but nothing had progressed.
The client is a multinational company that provides third party logistics, handling many varied items from car parts to electronic items. Distributing items from their own holding facilities to their customer's facilities as required created a very varied and hard to measure process. KM&T were engaged to assist in preparing the investment criteria, facility planning and process flow for the establishment of a new Asia Pacific spare parts distribution centre in Singapore. The purpose of the new facility is to replace the existing two facilities in Singapore and stock the parts for a large automotive manufacturer, one of the clients largest customers. The facility would be distributing the parts within Asia and Australia.
