About
Daniel Mancuso - Owner and Operator
A Mechanical Engineer by degree, continuous improvement professional by trade, certified Lean/6Sigma Green Belt and Change Management practitioner. Bringing twelve years of experience in manufacturing and construction, in both high volume and high consequence environments, my toolbox is fully stocked for any challenge you have.
Excellence Delivered
As a recently founded company, this experience is from my time as an employee with each of the organizations listed. I share these methods and challenges to illustrate the benefits you can expect.
Improved Industrials is not affiliated with or endorsed by the listed companies.
Quality Control Through Standardization
In a first of a kind, high consequence construction project, Naval Nuclear Laboratories succeed by controlling their machinery breakdown response process. This was accomplished by establishing a single step-by-step method for resolving breakdowns utilizing error proofing methodologies. Then change management principles were used to drive ownership from the team.
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The project was completed ahead of schedule, even accounting for a number of machinery breakdowns, due to the prompt and effective response allotted by the newly controlled process.
New Product Integration By Continuous Improvement
When Kari-Out needed to bring an entirely new product line to their facility. A new product utilizing new machinery and first-in-the-factory technology comes with a lot of learning. Using the principles of continuous improvement and kaizen, we helped kick start a culture of learning where each participant in the product line became a key contributor to developing best practices and establishing standard operating procedures.
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The compounding effect of continuous improvement allowed the new product line to rapidly move from trial phase to a successful cornerstone of the business.
Targeting Waste to Reduce Cycle Time
Sometimes the biggest asset is a fresh perspective. When Newport News Shipbuilding was struggling to shorten their crane certification cycles, they needed the lean system's waste definition. By clearly highlighting who the customer is and what actions add value to the customer, we now had a filter to trim tasks from the process. Even more, a filter that the team was bought into. After removal of non-value added work, the certification process was standardized by crane type and templated to support ease of implementation.
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Non-compliances dropped due to the reduced administrative burden and the average certification schedule was cut by 30%.
Expanding Production Using Statistical Control
The high dollar cost for each finished silicon wafer meant GlobalFoundries could not afford to release new machinery to productivity without confirmation they would perform at the accepted quality level. Leveraged the established statistical process control to form the baseline performance level. With a small sample of controlled product we could then validate the new machinery was performing within the allowable limits.
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With only test product scrapped, GlobalFoundries successfully expanded their product flow to meet customer demand.
