A 1,000-Mile Journey: GE Gas Power is using lean manufacturing to overhaul a giant turbine factory

By Emily Cook

 When the demand for new gas turbines dried up in 2017, GE Gas Power’s factory in Greenville, South Carolina, was left holding millions worth of high-tech parts it couldn’t use. The plant turned to the lean manufacturing method and used it to cut overall production time — or lead time — for its HA gas turbine from a year and a half to less than 40 weeks. As a result, inventory levels are down by half, saving the business hundreds of millions of dollars in capital. “It was something I could easily embrace and get my head wrapped around,” says plant leader John Kenney. “The benefits were so easy to see.” https://invent.ge/3auYKNC  

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